PHILOSOPHY - Language: Gricean Pragmatics [HD]
Karen Lewis (Barnard College, Columbia University) explores the relationship between language and communication, looking at the question of how it is that people regularly use words to communicate more than their literal meanings. This video introduces us to the most philosophically influential theory on this matter, H.P. Grice’s theory of pragmatics.
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