Course Reflection [Korey Nuehs]

I found Grice's theory of implication and conversation maxims to be quite amazing. Given that I'm also an English major, his theories really have made me think about how to apply in a more literary setting, such as how writers begin their works and how quality might be assessed in accordance to his theory. The elegance and simplicity of his theory is really refreshing. One area where it applies to is what Robert Frost called the 'Sound of Sense', basically how certain sounds and stresses rub off onto sentences due to the way the words are arranged. I think Grice's theory of conventional implicature and Hornsby's paper on gesturalism really makes sense of this phenomena.