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An implicature is anything that is inferred from an utterance but that is not a condition for the truth of the utterance. There are different types of implicatures. Below you find a brief overview:
- Convesational implicatures
- Generalized conversational implicatures
- Particularized conversational implicatures
- Scalar implicatures
- Conventional implicatures
- Potential implicature: A potential implicature is an implicature that would arise from any of the components of a given utterance if that component were uttered in some linguistic or extralinguistic context.
- Actual implicature: an actual implicature is any potential implicature that is not canceled by its context.
References and Links
References
- Bieswanger, Markus & Annette Becker (2006): Introduction to English Linguistics (2nd edition). Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke Verlag.
- Grice, Paul (1975): Logic and conversation. In P. Cole and J. Morgan (eds): Syntax and Semantics 3, 41-58. New York: Academic Press.
- Levinson, Stephen C (1983): Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Yule, George (1996): Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Links
- Definition of implicature from the Oxford English Dictionary
- Definition and detailed explanation from the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy
- Definition from Universal Teacher
- Glottopedia Entry on Implicature