On Oct. 25, McEvoy wrote:
"Surprised JLS didn't challenge Robert on this, but it was in fact a
well-known
British film about implicature.*
Dnl*The screenwriter, Colin Welland, proved the point with his "The
British are
coming" acceptance speech at the Oscars, one of the most implicatural of
all
such speeches (despite fierce competition over the years, for example,
Paltrow's massive implicature that there was no one in the whole wide
world
whom she didn't wish to tearfully thank)."
Oddly, on Monday Nov. 2, Welland passed away.
More specifically, at his home in London.
Colin Edward Williams was born in Leigh, Lancashire, to John Williams and
Norah Downs.
Williams grew up in the Kensington area of Liverpool.
He later moved to Newton-le-Willows.
He went to Bretton Hall and Goldsmiths in (South) London.
Later, he went to the Manchester Library Theatre.
He appeared in Pinter's "The Birthday Party".
He appeared in "Z-Cars".
Also in "Sraw dogs", with Dustin Hoffman.
He wrote "Yanks" -- which concerns the cultural strains between the
reserved residents of semirural Northern England and the American soldiers
stationed there.
-- With Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave.
In writing the film, Williams drew on his own recollections.
Williams said that one episode was 'real': A soldier gave him a hatful of
coins with the attending utterance
i. Spend it for me, kid.
and its attending implicatures. (That the soldier could not, as he was
mobilising for D-Day).
"It was exactly what was said to me," Williams notes. (And implicated --
although can an implicature, being indeterminate, be 'exact'?)
Williams also wrote "A dry white season".
At some point, he took the nom de plume, "Welland" -- "which," as Geary
notes, "is the strict consecution of two well-used particles, "well" and "and"
-- which shouldn't be understood to implicate that Welland was
interjectional in nature."
Cheers,
Speranza
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
