implicature

Unlike many other topics in pragmatics, implicature does not have an extended history.

Conventional implicature is independent of the cooperative principle and its four maxims.

In this respect, presupposition is distinguished from entailment and implicature.

His theory of implicature is among the most important and influential contributions to contemporary pragmatics.

Both kinds of implicature are of great interest.

"Implicature" is an alternative to "implication," which has additional meanings in logic and informal language.

A statement always carries its conventional implicature.

The concept of implicature, therefore, seems to offer some significant functional explanations of linguistic facts.

The conventional interpretation of the word "but" will always create the implicature of a sense of contrast.

Grice's second theory, in which he develops the concept of implicature, is essentially a theory about how people use language.

The implicature the people derive seems to be that, if they hear starling-like noises starlings must be there.

Grice also distinguishes between generalized and particularized conversational implicature.

Presumptive meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature.

Some examples of scalar implicature are:

"The synchronic and diachronic status of conversational implicature."

First, implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena.

As a brief account of how the term 'implicature' is used in discourse analysis, we have summarised the important points in Grice's proposal.

(For a more detailed treatment of conversational implicature, see Levinson, forthcoming.)

"A new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature."

Thirdly, the notion of implicature seems likely to effect substantial simplifications in both the structure and the content of semantic descriptions.

For a fuller discussion of conventional implicature, see Karttunen & Peters (1979).

"The Logic of Conventional Implicature".

"The Myth of Conventional Implicature," Linguistics and Philosophy, 22, pp.

An alternative view is that the subjects added an unstated implicature to the effect that the other answer implied that Linda was not a feminist.

The Top 10 Misconceptions about Implicature by Kent Bach (2005)