[lit-ideas] Grice and Chomsky
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:24:23 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 1/9/2014 2:01:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx writes:
"To provide a bit more background, here is the background section from the
Wikipedia article on Syntactic Structures."
Oddly, there are quite a few cross-references: Grice, Chomsky.
(By Grice I mean Herbert Paul, not Geoffrey Russell -- Geoffrey Russell
Grice, philosopher with UEA/Norwich).
Chomsky quotes Grice on 'and' in Aspects of a Theory of Syntax. He gets
Grice's first names wrong in the Index, though, where Grice is indexed as
"Grice, A. P.", rather than "Grice, H. P.". My guess is that since Grice went
by his second (or middle, if you must) name, "Paul", the "A. P." was in need
of a proof-reading.
Chomsky goes on to analyse 'presupposition' and 'implicature' in a seminal
paper that changed his original model.
Chomsky's most extended treatment of Grice is in "Rules and
representations", when he is discussing 'pragmatic competence' and the idea of
a
'pragmatic rule'. Chomsky bases his discussion on one essay by Grice, as repr.
by
Searle in "The philosophy of language" and focuses on what Chomsky perceives
as Skinnerian and thus behaviouristic (rather than intentionalist) in
Grice's talk, "procedure", "resultant procedure", "basic procedure",
"willingness to utter", etc.
Grice confessed he had two mentors in life, whose ideas he never shared:
Quine and Chomsky.
Grice possibly first heard of Chomsky as per this book McCreery is
summarising below. It was a favourite of (of all people), J. L. Austin during
the
Saturday morning meetings of Grice's Play Group.
And so on.
Cheers,
Speranza
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