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Implicature

In pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed. Implicatures can aid in communicating more efficiently than by explicitly saying everything we want to communicate. The philosopher H. P. Grice coined the term in 1975. Grice…

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Conversational implicature

Maxims of conversationProlixityBelowMoore's paradoxScalar implicatures
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General and cited references

DoiS2CIDISBNBirner, BettyBlackburn, Simon
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Implicature in relevance theory

Relevance theory#Interpretation vs. descriptionLogical formPronounsPremiseDescriptive
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Conventional implicature

ParticlesTruth conditionsAdjective phraseYewberryAppositives
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Implicature

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Triples289
Avg. degree1.97
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related to General and cited references · 153
Implicature → Academic Press, An ERP, Applications, Archived, Bach, Bertuccelli-Papi, Betty, BF00627397, Birner, Blackburn, Blakemore, Blome-Tillmann, Boundaries, Brian, Cambridge University Press, Carston, Chicago Press, Christopher, Cognition, Cole
related to Further reading · 31
Implicature → Archived, Background, Benjamin, Boston University, Brown, But Me No Buts, Conversational Implicatures, Discourse Markers, Discourse-Markers Theory, Grice's, Hancher, Hasidim, Language, Law, Light, Literary Interpretation, Michael, Mitnagdim, Modern Language Association, Numen
related to Criticism · 19
Implicature → Also, Apart, Because, Blakemore, Blakemore's, Carston, Donovan, Grice's, In, Levinson, Other, Poor, Rieber, The, There, This, Under, While Grice, Yewberry
related to Conventional implicature · 10
Implicature → An, Conventional, Donovan, Grice, In, Such, Surprisingly, Taken, They, This
related to The principle of relevance · 10
Implicature → B's, Both, Consequently, France, Grice's, Gérard, If, Relevance, Somewhere, South
related to External links · 8
Implicature → Davis, Edward, In Zalta, ISSN, OCLC, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia, Wayne
related to Clashes of maxims · 6
Implicature → B's, But, France, Gérard, Sometimes, Suppose
related to Distinction from explicatures · 6
Implicature → All, On, Sperber, Therefore, This, Wilson
related to Implicature in relevance theory · 6
Implicature → All, For, In, Peter, Susan, The
has effect · 5
Implicature → Even, For, Jane, Jane's, Metaphors

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implicatures relevance conversational example utterance isbn maxims information theory also conventional maxim principle quantity meaning grice explicature speaker context cooperative

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but or thereforeinstance ofwhich are tied to certain words0.80text
is requiredinstance ofThe cooperative principle Make your contribution0.80text
at the stage at which it occursinstance ofThe cooperative principle Make your contribution0.80text
by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engagedinstance ofThe cooperative principle Make your contribution0.80text
someinstance ofPrototypical examples include words specifying quantities0.80text
fewinstance ofPrototypical examples include words specifying quantities0.80text
or manyinstance ofPrototypical examples include words specifying quantities0.80text
sayinginstance ofshe can opt out of the cooperative principle by giving appropriate clues0.80text
evoking mental imagesinstance ofbut with other concepts0.80text
sensationsinstance ofbut with other concepts0.80text
feelingsinstance ofbut with other concepts0.80text
the following adjective phrase have been argued to be grammatical structures that produce conventional implicaturesinstance ofNon-restrictive supplements0.80text

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