Metaphor

1. What is the distinction between novel and dead metaphors? Can you think of an example?

2. Why might you think metaphors are abbreviated smilies?

3. Is there a difference in how we understand metaphors and smilies?

4. Similes (if literal) are symmetrical. What does this mean? Are metaphors symmetrical?

5. Are all metaphors reducible to smilies? Can you think of one which isnt?

6. What is Searle's theory?

7. What are some problems with Searle's theory? (We touched on some last week)

8. What Davidson's theory?

9. What are the problems with Davidsons theory?

10. Which account do you think is best?

Implicature

1. What is the SEMANTIC CONTENT of
A) They got married and had a baby

What is IMPLIED by A)?

2. Think of your own example of a sentence which communicates more than its sematic content using implicature.

3. What are the 4 Gricean maxims of conversation?

4. How are implicatures conveyed according to Grice?

5. Which maxim does an utterance of
'I ate some of the cakes' flout in order to convay its meaning?

How about, (upon reaching the end of the party) 'Here's the door'

6. How about 'they got married and had a baby'?

7. What is the difference between an particularized and a general implicature?

8. What might a good test for CI (conversational implicature) be?

9. What is the semantic content of 'she was poor but honest'? Is there any CI? Can it be cancelled?

10. How might Grice deal with metaphor? How about sarcasm?

11. (Hard question) How might you use CI to deal with the Frege puzzles for the Millian?