| Grice carried out a systematic study on the concept of meaning by means of logicalanalysis, he stressed the meaning used in certain context, i.e.the pragmatic meaning. Heinvestigated conversational implicature, and put forward the theory of the CooperativePrinciple and related maxims. If we observe the principle and maxims, we may get generalconversation implicature, otherwise we may get particular conversational implicature.Grice’s philosophy of language has high theoretical value to either philosophy of languageor pragmatics, which can not be ignored. Grice’s theory of intention-meaning is proposedto non-natural meaning with intention as the core concept. In this theory, theword-meaning, sentence-meaning and utterer’s meaning are restored to speaker’s meaning.This theory opens up new ground for analysing semantic concept, which based on mentalconcepts. Grice’s theory of conversational implicature lays the foundation for RelevanceTheory and Neo-Gricean Theory. However, Grice’s philosophy of language has limitationstoo. It overemphasizes the decisive role of intention in elaborating the relationship betweenintention and meaning, and Cooperative Principle and related maxims are too vague. |
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