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The Mutt and Jute dialogue in Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Some Gricean Perspectives. (author James Joyce; philosopher H.P. Grice)

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Date: 19940622
Author:Herman, David

Let us swop hats and excheck a few strong verbs weak oach eather yapyazzard abast the blooty creeks.

(Finnegans Wake 16.8-9)

1. PERSPECTIVES ON GRICE

It has been nearly twenty years since Mary Louise Pratt, in Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse, extended to literary discourse ideas about language and communication developed by the philosopher H. P. Grice. Even so, Pratt's book did not attempt to account for communicative acts represented in literary discourse--e.g., literary dialogues--but rather for "the literary speech situation" in a global sense ...

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