[lit-ideas] Re: "No pun intended" -- whose copyright? -- and different 'implicatures'
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:58:27 -0400
JLS:
> > For Grice (or Griceans), this is a pragmatic contradiction. Because, by
> > pointing the
> > addressee's attention to the pun, it _is_ somehow intended; yet it is a
> > sneaky act of communication.
>
Yes, and in some cases this kind of construction is underhanded and
the implicature is insulting. In your case, the utterer is making sure
that his pun doesn't go un-noticed, in my case (to follow) the speaker
thinks he's actually sneaking something by me by pointing it out?
I have a friend who likes to preface his 'advice' with "no offence, but..."
I hypothesize that he knows what he is about to say has a potential to
cause offense, but instead of reconstructing his writing/speaking to
be more diplomatic and less [since he is aware of its potential,
deliberately] offensive, he just blurts it out. I guess I should
appreciate him for his candor.
p
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