Herbert Paul Grice lived from 13 March 1913 to 28 August 1988 and, usually publishing under the name H.P. Grice, H. Paul Grice or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle, with its namesake Gricean maxims, concepts that became foundational in the linguistic field of pragmatics; his work on meaning also influenced the philosophical study of semantics.
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Defining MomentServed in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, then returned to his Fellowship at St John's 1 Notable PublicationStudies in the Way of Words (1989) 1 Office HeldProfessor at the University of California, Berkeley 1 Death PlaceBerkeley, California, U.S. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Paul Grice - Wikipedia
Infobox, Born, date
13 March 1913
Infobox, Born, year
13 March 1913
Infobox, Born, place
Birmingham, England
Infobox, Died, date
28 August 1988, aged 75
Infobox, Died, year
28 August 1988, aged 75
Infobox, Died, place
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Infobox, School
Analytic philosophy
Life section, WWII
During the Second World War Grice served in the Royal Navy; after the war he returned to his Fellowship at St John's
Life section, valedictory book
Studies in the Way of Words (1989)
Life section, Berkeley
he moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his death in 1988
Lead section, nationality sentence
Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913-28 August 1988), usually publishing under the name H.
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