Grice’s Analysis of Utterance-Meaning and Cicero’s Catilinarian Apostrophe

Argumentation 23 (2):239-257 (2009)
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The pragmatics underlying Paul Grice’s analysis of utterance-meaning provide a powerful framework for investigating the commitments arguers undertake. Unfortunately, the complexity of Grice’s analysis has frustrated appropriate reliance on this important facet of his work. By explicating Cicero’s use of apostrophe in his famous “First Catilinarian” this essay attempts to show that a full complex of reflexive gricean speaker intentions in essentially to seriously saying and meaning something

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Studies in the way of words.Herbert Paul Grice - 1989 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Meaning.Stephen R. Schiffer - 1972 - Oxford,: Clarendon Press.
Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions.H. Paul Grice - 1969 - Philosophical Review 78 (2):147-177.

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