In Language, Context Is King

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The late philosopher Paul Grice formulated four brief maxims by which conversations are generally governed. Most humans find it relatively easy to observe them. Machines, on the other hand, not as much. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Bonus: "In Language, Context Is King." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Normally, Lexicon Valley's bonus segments are behind the subscriber paywall, but we’re making this week’s bonus free for everyone. With more content now than ever before, we hope that you’ll become a Booksmart Studios supporter. Happy Thanksgiving! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.
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1:01.0	Stop.
1:04.8	So what we learned about today with the irony was in broader perspective about maxims.
1:14.1	It's the maxims created by the philosopher of language Paul Grice.
1:19.2	We linguists call them the Griceian maxims.
1:22.4	And what the maxims are about are certain underlying assumptions that we make about conversation, about how we use language.
1:30.3	These things are unspoken, nobody would teach them, but they are yet another way that we can see
1:35.3	that speaking is not just about describing things and giving orders and asking questions.
1:41.3	It's more than that. Social interaction is weirder and richer than that.
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