GRAJSOVA ANATOMIJA: DISEKCIJA ZNAČENJA I NAMERA U PRAGMATICI KOMUNIKACIJE
GRICE’S ANATOMY: DISSECTING MEANING AND INTENTIONS IN PRAGMATIC COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: While pragmatics focuses on speech acts and what we do when we speak, semantics deals with the conventional meaning of an expression and its contribution to the meaning of sentences. Using Grice’s ideas, speech acts could be defined as the communicative intention associated with the utterance of a certain linguistic form. Successful communication necessitates respecting the syntactic and semantic rules of the language, conveying our intended message, and ensuring the listener understands our intention. Grice’s analysis focuses primarily on the speaker’s intentions and what he calls the speaker’s meaning. The differences between the conventional and the speaker’s meaning can be explained by starting from a general principle of human behavior. People participate in communication with the expectation of achieving certain outcomes, and in order to achieve them, they adhere to certain strategies that they also expect from others. This results in cooperation between speakers. Bearing in mind the possibilities that this kind of analysis opens up for us, we will consider some of the cases of its application.

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