PHILOSOPHY - Language: Gricean Pragmatics [HD]

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  • Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
  • 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 73

  • @WOOWicked
    @WOOWicked 8 років тому +68

    I am 3 minutes into this presentation, and I already understand more about implicatures than I did doing 2 days of reading, thank you

  • @Misato90
    @Misato90 3 роки тому +15

    I'm studying autism and this was really helpful to frame where the struggles with social communication are essentially pragmatic in nature. Thanks.

  • @The_InfantMalePollockFrancis
    @The_InfantMalePollockFrancis 6 років тому +10

    This video made the maxims and their application click for me haha. I had a habit of overthinking, thanks to the ambiguity of my professor's lectures, or maybe I'm just a simpleton, and I respond well to visual presentation, haha. Thank you!

  • @egonmartins4194
    @egonmartins4194 6 років тому +4

    Just imagine your professor giving you a reference note with nothing in it but "Bob has wondeful penmanship".

  • @potterhead2292
    @potterhead2292 5 років тому +7

    Thank you! I was about to cry bitter tears over the original essay by grice. This.helped.so.so.much.

  • @linguaphilly
    @linguaphilly 8 років тому +25

    It would be a fun experiment to just disregard all of these rules in a conversation with a family member

    • @joebazooks
      @joebazooks 8 років тому

      +jortjuuuuuh i jackson pollocked my toilet bowl this morning

    • @megsandoval3012
      @megsandoval3012 3 роки тому +1

      My fart smells goooooood. I love fart.

    • @sofiarchive
      @sofiarchive 3 роки тому +3

      my mom already does that lol

  • @ConceptHut
    @ConceptHut 4 роки тому

    I had lost track of this video for a long time. Tried for hours and hours to find it again. Finally found it again. I really hate misplacing valuable knowledge.

  • @marinakirac2753
    @marinakirac2753 4 роки тому +5

    VERY clear, to the point and easy to understand! I'm sharing it with my students. Thanks a lot!

  • @Hermes_Agoraeus
    @Hermes_Agoraeus 8 років тому +14

    I wish we all shared this concept's common descriptive language so that we could quickly diagnose when or how we don't follow the maxims.

    • @lemonsys
      @lemonsys 3 роки тому +4

      breaking the maxims can also be a way of communicating something!

  • @TheExceptionalState
    @TheExceptionalState Рік тому +2

    Excellent video. Grice certainly knows how to kill a conversation and how to do it by ignoring all his maxims.

  • @isdorynyoni9461
    @isdorynyoni9461 9 років тому +2

    I am sitting for my exam in discourse analysis next week, thank you for this informative analysis

  • @RYANTHEGREAT2000
    @RYANTHEGREAT2000 9 років тому +3

    Haha! I've been watching these WiPhi videos for a while now. I'm in Professor Lewis' logic course, it was cool to run across this one. Really well done too!

  • @salimalshati3956
    @salimalshati3956 7 років тому +1

    a very useful lecture, fundamental , simplified and well-organized ,well done

  • @auxilio1312
    @auxilio1312 4 роки тому

    Everything Karen says is accurate and soooo helpful!

  • @pinklabbit
    @pinklabbit 2 роки тому

    Thank you for the video. I'm doing a PhD currently but I've never felt dumber when engaging with journal articles in this area. Everything seems to convoluted! Thank you for simplifying it.

  • @derrida33
    @derrida33 10 років тому +32

    Dear Karen,
    You're my hero "of the day" with that "long" video about pragmatics!
    It's not an easy topic, but you're presentation is amazing!
    Thanx.
    Claude, a French teacher of philosohy in Montréal!!!

    • @WirelessPhilosophy
      @WirelessPhilosophy  9 років тому +4

      derrida33 Thank you and thanks for watching!

    • @samirsamir2206
      @samirsamir2206 8 років тому +2

      +Wireless Philosophy good job

    • @lesterduludis8892
      @lesterduludis8892 5 років тому

      RECIEVE instead of RECEIVE..? (3:17) Miss Lewis...? You should have a reader.
      DONT instead of DON'T..? (3:25) Let's stop here.

    • @lemonsys
      @lemonsys 3 роки тому +1

      @@lesterduludis8892 oh wa wa wa

  • @jasondcruz4753
    @jasondcruz4753 8 років тому

    This is really clear and useful! Thank you for creating it!

  • @Antidogma07
    @Antidogma07 2 роки тому

    Great video. Well done, Dr. Lewis.

  • @user-eq6em2cb9l
    @user-eq6em2cb9l 7 років тому +1

    clear and interesting! Thank you very much!

  • @salievshamshod7077
    @salievshamshod7077 2 роки тому

    Thank you, Ms. Lewis. Very good job!

  • @sofiamatheus5292
    @sofiamatheus5292 4 роки тому

    Great video and great explanation! Thank you very much!

  • @cantarafacanta
    @cantarafacanta 5 років тому +1

    Thank you so much for this video! It helped me a lot!

  • @elperromasguatondelmundo
    @elperromasguatondelmundo 6 років тому

    ive been subbed to wiphi for a while, dunno how i missed this one. good video

  • @neddarbelabbes7287
    @neddarbelabbes7287 9 років тому

    Thanks Karen. Waiting for other videos.

  • @dlaangela
    @dlaangela 5 років тому

    thank you so much! this was a great explanation with very good examples! helped me understand a lot

  • @lauravanessapardoconeo135
    @lauravanessapardoconeo135 Рік тому +1

    This video made the topic so clear! I was reading about it and couldn't really understand what they were trying to say

  • @borealssb1384
    @borealssb1384 4 роки тому

    This was really concise and helpful, thanks so much! ^-^

  • @alphanietoledo5826
    @alphanietoledo5826 2 роки тому

    Thank you, this helped me a lot with my lingüístics exam.

  • @jemcatunao
    @jemcatunao 9 років тому +3

    Thank you for this! :)

  • @HealthSpotlight
    @HealthSpotlight 3 роки тому

    Watching this in 2020....Thank You

  • @DECEPTIONINDICATED
    @DECEPTIONINDICATED 3 роки тому

    Can this concept be used when analyzing a written statement or verbal statement to find out if someone is being truthful about what they are saying? Great job on this video.

  • @birijapeace4794
    @birijapeace4794 2 роки тому

    Great teacher

  • @conorb6281
    @conorb6281 7 років тому

    excellent video

  • @dlon8899
    @dlon8899 3 роки тому +1

    Teachers at my 8 to 11 years st school, used to describe me as "talkative" . They could've said I was sociable and gregarious. How mean spirited

  • @fahimaeto5857
    @fahimaeto5857 Рік тому

    Very well elaborated and the illustrations did help a lot. Thank you very much!

  • @wilsonperalta9493
    @wilsonperalta9493 7 років тому

    Are there any more of Karen Lewis? She's great!

  • @hugo822514
    @hugo822514 3 роки тому

    Thanks for you video!

  • @raimundononatosousa8849
    @raimundononatosousa8849 4 роки тому

    Good video!!

  • @flaze3
    @flaze3 5 років тому +1

    Karen shmaren, bananas. I like tea. Your presentation was... let's just say... I got my hair cut yesterday. You are French I see!
    I hope you appreciate my infringements of the maxims as much as I appreciated your excellent video! :)

  • @claudiaquat
    @claudiaquat 10 років тому +6

    Good job.

  • @hoimeim
    @hoimeim 7 років тому

    Dear Karen,
    Thanks for your video. I am wondering if the Gricean theory is only applicable in conversation between two or more participants, or it is also appropriate to use this theory for advertising language analysis which commercials is kind of a one-way communication as viewers could not involve in the ideas exchange.

    • @LazyMusroom
      @LazyMusroom 5 років тому

      Nah, man this shit aint useful for nothin man

  • @milocat6387
    @milocat6387 Рік тому

    Does anyone else have a strong desire to do a treasure hunt baking game? Bake this cake in under an hour - but with a twist! All of the ingredients are hidden. You must use the treasure maps provided to find your ingredients, make your cake and bake it before time runs out.

  • @samirsamir2206
    @samirsamir2206 8 років тому

    good job

  • @yousifmokhtar9984
    @yousifmokhtar9984 6 років тому

    thanks a million

  • @louxavier2087
    @louxavier2087 5 років тому

    way to go Grice!

  • @advtauqeersyed6
    @advtauqeersyed6 7 років тому +1

    thanks

  • @rashshawn779
    @rashshawn779 9 років тому

    This is a lot of good information, in such a little time. Really good. =D

    • @WirelessPhilosophy
      @WirelessPhilosophy  9 років тому +1

      Ravin Sharma Thanks!

    • @joebazooks
      @joebazooks 8 років тому

      +Wireless Philosophy maybe it's just me but the language series is by far the best. (tbh i've made a point to watch the language series, whereas i've only seen a couple of other videos on other topics.) more language videos!!!

  • @clemenswagner5186
    @clemenswagner5186 3 роки тому

    I already learned about Grice in by BA; in my MA we now have to read original texts and boy oh boy linguistic texts are quite the mess

  • @rwharrington87
    @rwharrington87 5 років тому +2

    I very much did not disenjoy this series of still images featuring a CGI hand

  • @tnvheiseler
    @tnvheiseler 4 роки тому

    To know that someone who goes to work can not be at the party is not word knowledge, given both are in different places.

  • @georgegrice7258
    @georgegrice7258 4 роки тому +1

    I’m so confused, my second name is grice

  • @user-cx5lj7lb6u
    @user-cx5lj7lb6u 2 роки тому

    you need to adjust the content

  • @darkwingscooter9637
    @darkwingscooter9637 8 років тому

    I disagree with your very last statement. The semantic content of the sentences are actually different, pragmatics just explains why and how. Remember Tarski's definition of semantics: "[a discipline] that deals with certain relations between expressions of a language and the objects (or states of affairs) "referred to" by those expression". Pragmatics falls well within this definition, just (perhaps) with more oblique relations.

  • @daleg.9673
    @daleg.9673 7 років тому +5

    I don't think you can bake a cake with sugar cubes.

  • @halfsourlizard9319
    @halfsourlizard9319 5 місяців тому

    Saying 'random things for no reason at all' is, quite literally, 'small talk'.

  • @FailedNuance
    @FailedNuance 8 років тому +1

    This video in relation to the noticeable difference (often mentioned in comedy) between male and female communication has me pondering. Could the reason females often violate the second part of the Maxim of Quantity be because of the difference in thought between the genders and the resulting stigma that "Men are idiots" thus making the female believe they need to offer more information than the male thinks is necessary?

    • @msy5535
      @msy5535 8 років тому

      +FailedNuance , this is what i was thinking as well. In sociolinguistics there is the concept that men and women speak differently, females imploring language differently to males. Thus the conclusion that we are 'just different' or wired differently as people like Tanner state. Although i think it also has to do with how we are socialised and conditioned throughout life. With the Maxims (in regards to Grice and pragmatics), it's not just the fact that men and women may be speaking differently (use of language), but also their goals in the interaction are different. Also, women (as you have stated) might feel the need to give more information based on previous experiences of miscommunication. This is called a schema (expectations based on previous interactions and observations). So women and men may 'think' differently, and implore language differently, but at the end of the day, it's actually the speaker (regardless of sex) that has to take responsibility for what is said, what is implied, what the receiver infers and what is not said. We also have to consider that implicature works both ways: the speaker may have tried to imply something (Honey, it's really cold in here), and the receiver of the utterance may infer that his missus is making a literal statement about the temperature in the room, not implying to turn the heater on etc. So... a lot of communicate breakdowns, IMO are based not so much on the sex distinction, but on how receptive you are to understanding what is implied. Basically having shared and mutual understanding of what is said and what is not :)