[lit-ideas] Grice's Questions, Grice's Answers
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:38:02 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 3/9/2013 7:08:54 A.M. UTC-02, donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
cites Corleone re:
"can't answer a straight question anymore"
I would think that 'straight' is best seen as an adverb:
He can't answer, straightly, a question.
"Straight" seems to apply to the mode of ANSWERING a question.
In this view, a question -- say, by Grice, "Is it raining out there?" -- is
not straight (or crooked, for that matter). The ANSWER to the question is
neither, incidentally. Grice's claim to fame being the implicature -- an
apparently non-straight answer to a question -- his first example ever:
A: I've run out of fuel.
B: There's a garage round the corner.
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Rather, then, as Corleone misses to understand: there's Grice's questions,
and Grice's answers, and 'straight' applies, at most, to their link.
Or not?
Cheers,
Speranza
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