Re: THEORY: Are commands to believe infelicitous?

No, this is H. P. Grice.

The Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory of Grice, Austin, and Searle
appears to owe the terms "pragmatics" and "conversational
implicature", as well as the "maxims", to Grice.  It appears to owe
the "locutionary", "illocutionary", and "perlocutionary" speech acts
to Austin; and to owe the taxonomy of illocutionary acts to Searle.
(Somebody correct me if I got it wrong, please.)

H. P. Grice wrote "Meaning" in 1957; "The Causal Theory of Perception"
in 1961; "Logic and Conversation" in 1969; "Logic and Conversation" in
1975; "Further Notes on Logic and Conversation" in
1978; "Presupposition and Conversational Implicature" in 1981;
and "Studies in the Way of Words" in 1989.

I was placing my question in the topic typified by Grice's maxims, and
by the notion of "felicity".  I wasn't emphasizing Grice or Austin or
Searle or Derrida, about none of whom I am an expert.

Thanks for caring.

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Tom H.C. in OK

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@A...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Tom Chappell <tomhchappell@Y...> writes:
> >...
> > Some of you might be familiar with Grice, with Speech Act Theory,
> > and/or with Pragmatics.
> >...
>
> I am not familiar with that theory, but is that Martine Grice?  Just
> want to know because I know a linguist of that name.
>
> **Henrik