linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed. Implicatures can aid in...
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Paul Grice (section Grice's theory of implicature)
Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean maxims), which...
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In pragmatics, scalar implicature, or quantity implicature, is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning...
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expressions. Entailment contrasts with the pragmatic notion of implicature. While implicatures are fallible inferences, entailments are enforced by lexical...
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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...
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Relevance theory (section Implicature)
are intended by the communicator are categorised into explicatures and implicatures. The explicatures of an utterance are what is explicitly said, often...
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exhaustivity is a semantic entailment encoded in the grammar, a pragmatic implicature arising from Gricean social cognition, or some combination of the two...
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Stylistics (section Implicature)
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:...
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"p implies q; p is asserted to be true, so therefore q must be true" Implicature, what is suggested in an utterance, even though neither expressed nor...
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known as Guillaume's razor): As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations...
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