linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed. Implicatures can aid in...

Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean maxims), which...

In pragmatics, scalar implicature, or quantity implicature, is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning...

flout them on a surface level; such flouting often signals unspoken implicatures that add to the meaning of the utterance. The concept of the cooperative...

are intended by the communicator are categorised into explicatures and implicatures. The explicatures of an utterance are what is explicitly said, often...

exhaustivity is a semantic entailment encoded in the grammar, a pragmatic implicature arising from Gricean social cognition, or some combination of the two...

expressions. Entailment contrasts with the pragmatic notion of implicature. While implicatures are fallible inferences, entailments are enforced by lexical...

Pilkington analyses the idea of 'implicature', as instigated in the previous work of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson. Implicature may be divided into two categories:...

theory of scalar implicatures: evidence for embedded implicaturess". In Egré, Paul; Magri, Giorgio (eds.). Presuppositions and implicature. MIT Press. v...

known as Giume's razor): As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations...