[lit-ideas] The Conversation Game
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:23:46 EDT
In a message dated 6/27/2011 6:23:56 P.M., donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
(Popper also used the coinage 'the game of science' in 'LdF' only to have
this way of speaking cruelly overworked by others, as if science was
thereby implied to be a mere game like 'scissors, paper, stone'
----
Actually, I haven't counted them, but Grice 1967 "Logic and conversation"
(lecture II but elsewhere too, and perhaps "Presupposition and
conversational implicature", a later thing) do trade on the metaphor, as well.
Unlike
what I seem to prefer of late, Grice's earlier 1964, "Logic and conversation"
lectures he delivered at Oxford -- and deposited at the Bancroft Library
-- the 1967 lectures he delivered at Harvard, rather -- the William James
lectures.
He used, "conversational game", 'conversational rule' of the
'conversational game', and, notably, "conversational move". I think he says
that some
moves are inappropriate by the rules of the game, and so on.
Notably, a few overworked this -- notably Hintikka, and Carlson in his
"Dialogue Games" and game-theoretical applications. I never thought Grice was
being serious.
And so on.
(but in my disseration, I did make use of Grice's terminology and do speak
of the 'move' and the 'goal' and the 'strategy' and the 'game' and the idea
of 'cooperative' game, etc -- quite a difference from Witters's _game_
stuff, or Popper's, I realise).
And so on.
Speranza
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