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

Auteur: Kauffeld, Fred
Titre: Grice’s Analysis of Utterance-Meaning and Cicero’s Catilinarian Apostrophe
Revue/Collection: "Argumentation", Volume 23, Number 2
Annèe edition: 2009
Pages: 239-257
Mots-clès: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Abstract : 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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Sigle auteur: Kauffeld 2009