Rethinking being Gricean: New challenges for metapragmatics

New Grads Checklist: Meeting Challenges, Being Involved

Many graduates exit TAFE or University studies with a casual or volunteer position and a promising future. However, many more have no idea how to get that elusive dream job or to further the position they already have. As a new graduate of the TAFE Diploma of Library and Information Services, I have been a volunteer, a casual employee at four jobs (at the same time), and now aim to become an ac...

Rethinking Development—Challenges and Opportunities

As many of you know, I am relatively new to the World Bank. This is my first visit to Japan in my new capacity as vice president for external and United Nations affairs, and I am very pleased to be here at Tokyo United Nations University to talk with you about the future of development. I can think of no better place than to test our own ideas, hear new ones, and think through different approac...

Gricean Quality

According to the Knowledge Account of Assertion, assertions are governed by the rule that One must: assert that p only if one knows that p. Some philosophers oppose recent arguments for the Knowledge Account by claiming that assertion, being an act much like any other, will be subject to norms governing acts generally, such as those articulated by Grice for the purpose of successful, cooperati...

Embedded Metapragmatics and Lying Politicians

A metapragmatic expression denotes an event of speaking. An embedded metapragmatic construction embeds one metapragmatic expression within another, as in "Bush said Clinton lied." This article reports that embedded metapragmatic constructions, when used in television news coverage of U.S. political campaigns, most often predicate on the topic of lying. Simple metapragmatic constructions in this...

Rethinking Nursing for the New Millennium