- linguistics, an
implicature is
something the
speaker suggests or
implies with an utterance, even
though it is not
literally expressed.
Implicatures can aid in...
-
scalar implicatures with
discrete degree modifiers such as "half" as in half finished.
Their ability to
spontaneously compute scalar implicatures was greater...
- exchanges, and
these may also
generate nonconventional implicatures."
Conversational implicatures are made possible,
according to Grice, by the fact that...
- – such as
implicatures – in his view. In particular, he
argues that this
theory cannot account for
generalized conversational implicatures because it...
-
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...
- weak
implicatures and not
those meanings that are
simply 'read in' by the
hearer or reader. Yet the
distinguishing instant at
which weak
implicatures and...
- expressions.
Entailment contrasts with the
pragmatic notion of
implicature.
While implicatures are
fallible inferences,
entailments are
enforced by lexical...
-
containing complementary literals.
Cancellable (linguistics), a
property of
implicatures and
presuppositions Cancellation (television), the
termination of a television...
- speaker's identities, and the
place and time of the utterance. The
study of
implicatures: the
things that are
communicated even
though they are not explicitly...
-
inference as
pragmatic conversational implicatures calculated on the
basis of an
inclusive semantics.
Implicatures are
typically cancellable and do not...
