Show concessions or show concessions? Good question. Probably both. Anyway, that is the title of an article that appeared in the first issue of the first volume of ‘Discourse Studies’. It is by Charles Antaki and Margaret Wetherell. This is tied to my prior essays on pragmatics as this time I’m taking a closer look […]
Month: August 2018
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The voice of an arrangement
I may have pointed out that I used to be employed in a project that focused on news. My task was to go through both broadsheet and tabloid news outlets. I looked at both domestic (Finnish) and foreign news outlets. This essay is not on that. That said it is about news in online news […]
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Lacan’t or won’t?
So, I went through H.P. Grice’s text ‘Logic and Conversation’ in the previous essay, covering his take on pragmatics. I left it at that, not really getting into it deeper, so its shortcomings weren’t really covered. Sure, I did make note of what Grice concedes here and there, namely that people, in general, don’t actually […]
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Grice Grispies
I keep returning to Jean-Jacques Lecercle’s article ‘The Misprision of Pragmatics: Conceptions of Language in Contemporary French Philosophy’. I return to it not because I don’t understand it and have to keep reading it, again and again, as if it was beyond me, but because of the stuff I read, or, rather come across on […]
So, I attended a major conference not long ago. It was one of these as big as it gets type of conferences with thousands of attendees, well, at least to my understanding, that is. The scale is so big that you know … just about no one, except a handful of familiar faces from a […]