Implicature serves a variety of goals: communication, maintaining good social relations, misleading without lying, style, and verbal efficiency. Knowledge of …
Conventional Implicature. Definition: “[…] in uttering a sentence . S, a speaker implies that . p. is the case if, by having been uttered, S. suggests as its …
shape both linguistic and nonlinguistic social interactions. The theory is thus tailored to describing conversational implicatures, a class of nonlexical …
In the theory I advocate, conventional implicatures arise by a combination of two narrowly semantic aspects of the grammar: lexical meanings and novel …
This chapter discusses a special case of implicature that since Grice has been labelled conventional implicature and explains how it differs from both …
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