How does this exchange contradict what you would expect to happen in this situation?

Information conveyed verbally all the same not literally

An implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, fifty-fifty though information technology is not literally expressed. Implicatures tin can assistance in communicating more efficiently than by explicitly saying everything nosotros want to communicate.^[one] This phenomenon is function of pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics. The philosopher H. P. Grice coined the term in 1975. Grice distinguished conversational implicatures, which arise because speakers are expected to respect general rules of chat, and conventional ones, which are tied to sure words such as "just" or "therefore".^[2] Accept for example the post-obit substitution:

A (to passer by): I am out of gas.

B: There is a gas station 'circular the corner.

Here, B does not say, but conversationally implicates, that the gas station is open, because otherwise his utterance would not be relevant in the context.^{[three] [4]} Conversational implicatures are classically seen as contrasting with entailments: They are not necessary or logical consequences of what is said, but are defeasible (cancellable).^{[v] [six]} So, B could go along without contradiction:

B: But unfortunately it's closed today.

An example of a conventional implicature is "Donovan is poor but happy", where the word "but" implicates a sense of contrast betwixt being poor and being happy.^[vii]

Later linguists introduced refined and different definitions of the term, leading to somewhat different ideas nearly which parts of the information conveyed past an utterance are actually implicatures and which are not.^{[8] [9]}

Conversational implicature [edit]

Grice was primarily concerned with conversational implicatures. Like all implicatures, these are office of what is communicated. In other words, conclusions the addressee draws from an utterance although they were non actively conveyed by the communicator are never implicatures. According to Grice, conversational implicatures arise because communicating people are expected past their addressees to obey the maxims of conversation and the overarching cooperative principle, which basically states that people are expected to communicate in a cooperative, helpful style.^{[ten] [11]}

The cooperative principle Make your contribution such as is required, at the stage at which information technology occurs, by the accustomed purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which yous are engaged.
The maxims of conversation
The maxim of Quality
try to brand your contribution ane that is true, specifically:
(i) do not say what y'all believe to be false
(two) practice not say that for which you lack adequate evidence
The maxim of Quantity
(i) brand your contribution every bit informative every bit is required for the current purposes of the exchange
(2) do not make your contribution more informative than is required
The maxim of Relation (or Relevance)
brand your contributions relevant
The maxim of Style
exist perspicuous, and specifically:
(i) avoid obscurity
(2) avoid ambiguity
(iii) exist brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity)
(iv) be orderly — Grice (1975:26–27), Levinson (1983:100–102)

Standard implicatures [edit]

The simplest situation is where the addressee can draw conclusions from the supposition that the communicator obeys the maxims, as in the following examples. The symbol "+>" means "implicates".^[12]

Quality

It is raining. +> I believe, and accept adequate evidence, that information technology is raining.

Moore'southward paradox, the observation that the sentence "It is raining, merely I don't believe that it is raining" sounds contradictory although it isn't from a strictly logical signal of view, has been explained equally a contradiction to this type of implicature. However, as implicatures can be cancelled (see beneath), this explanation is dubious.^[12]

Quantity (i)

A well-known class of quantity implicatures are the scalar implicatures. Prototypical examples include words specifying quantities such equally "some", "few", or "many":^{[13] [14]}

John ate some of the cookies. +> John didn't eat all of the cookies.

Here, the use of "some" semantically entails that more than than one cookie was eaten. Information technology does not entail, but implicates, that non every cookie was eaten, or at least that the speaker does not know whether whatever cookies are left. The reason for this implicature is that saying "some" when 1 could say "all" would exist less than informative enough in well-nigh circumstances. The general idea is that the communicator is expected to make the strongest possible claim, implicating the negation of whatsoever stronger claim. Lists of expressions that give rising to scalar implicatures, sorted from strong to weak, are known as Horn scales:^{[13] [xv]}

• ⟨all, many, some, few⟩
• ⟨..., 4, three, two, ane⟩ (primal number terms)
• ⟨always, often, sometimes⟩
• ⟨and, or⟩
• ⟨necessarily, mayhap⟩
• ⟨hot, warm⟩
• etc.

Negation reverses these scales, as in this example:

She won't necessarily get the job. +> She will peradventure get the chore.

"Not possibly" is stronger than "non necessarily", and the implicature follows from the double negation "She will not [not perhaps] get the task".^{[half dozen]}

Here are some further implicatures that can exist classified every bit scalar:^[xvi]

I slept on a boat yesterday. +> The boat was not mine.

This is a common structure where the indefinite article indicates that the referent is not closely associated with the speaker, because the stronger claim "I slept on my gunkhole yesterday" is not made.^[17]

The flag is green. +> The flag is completely green.

If this is the strongest possible claim, information technology follows that the flag has no other features, considering "The flag is greenish and some other colour" would be stronger. In other words, if information technology did contain other features, this utterance would not be informative enough.^[12]

Quantity (ii)

The second quantity maxim seems to work in the contrary direction as the first; the communicator makes a weaker claim, from which a stronger i is implicated. Implicatures arising from this maxim enrich the information contained in the utterance:^[18]

He drank a bottle of vodka and fell into a stupor. +> He drank a bottle of vodka and consequently fell into a stupor.

I lost a book yesterday. +> The book was mine.

There is all-encompassing literature, merely no consensus on the question which of the 2 quantity maxims is in operation in which circumstances; i.e. why "I lost a book yesterday" implicates that the volume was the speaker'southward, while "I slept on a gunkhole yesterday" usually implicates that the boat wasn't the speaker's.^[nine]

Relation/relevance

That cake looks delicious. +> I would like a piece of that cake.

This argument taken by itself would be irrelevant in virtually situations, so the addressee concludes that the speaker had something more than in listen.

The introductory case likewise belongs here:^[3]

A: I am out of gas.

B: In that location is a gas station 'round the corner. +> The gas station is open up.

Manner (four)

The cowboy jumped on his equus caballus and rode into the dusk. +> The cowboy performed these ii actions in this social club.

Being orderly includes relating events in the society they occurred.^[12]

Clashes of maxims [edit]

Sometimes it is incommunicable to obey all maxims at once. Suppose that A and B are planning a holiday in France and A suggests they visit their old acquaintance Gérard:

A: Where does Gérard live?

B: Somewhere in the South of France. +> B does not know where exactly Gérard lives.

B'southward answer violates the first maxim of quantity as information technology does not contain sufficient information to programme their route. But if B does not know the exact location, she cannot obey this proverb and also the maxim of quality; hence the implicature.^[19]

Floutings [edit]

The maxims can also exist blatantly disobeyed or flouted, giving ascent to another kind of conversational implicature. This is possible because addressees will go to great lengths in saving their supposition that the communicator did in fact – perhaps on a deeper level – obey the maxims and the cooperative principle. Many figures of spoken communication can be explained past this machinery.^{[twenty] [21]}

Quality (i)

Saying something that is evidently false tin can produce irony, meiosis, hyperbole and metaphor:^[20]

When she heard most the rumour, she exploded.

As information technology is improbable that she actually exploded, and it is highly unlikely that the speaker wanted to lie or was just mistaken, the addressee has to assume the utterance was meant to be metaphorical.

Quantity (i)

Utterances that are not informative on the surface include tautologies. They accept no logical content and hence no entailments, but can however be used to convey data via implicatures:^[20]

War is state of war.

Damning with faint praise as well works by flouting the kickoff quantity maxim. Consider the post-obit testimonial for a student:

Honey Sir, Mr. 10's control of English is excellent, and his attendance at tutorials has been regular. Yours, etc.

The implicature here is that the student is no good, since the instructor has nothing amend to say about him.^[21]

Relation/relevance

B's answer in the following exchange does not seem to be relevant, so A concludes that B wanted to convey something else: ^[xx]

A: Mrs Jenkins is an old windbag, don't you think?

B: Lovely atmospheric condition for March, isn't information technology? +> Watch out, her nephew is standing right behind y'all!^[22] (or the similar)

Manner (iii)

This utterance is much more long-winded than "Miss Singer sang an aria from Rigoletto" and therefore flouts the maxim "Be brief":^[xx]

Miss Vocalizer produced a series of sounds corresponding closely to the score of an aria from Rigoletto. +> What Miss Vocalizer produced cannot really exist described as an aria from Rigoletto.

Particularized versus generalized implicatures [edit]

Conversational implicatures that arise simply in specific contexts are called particularized, while those that are not or only slightly context dependent are generalized.^[23] Many of the examples above rely on some context, making them particularized implicatures: thus, "War is war" tin can refer to different properties of war, or things expected to happen during war, depending on the situation in which it is uttered. Prototypical examples of generalized implicatures are the scalar implicatures.^[13] Particularized implicatures are by far the more than common kind.^[24]

Properties [edit]

Grice attributed a number of properties to conversational implicatures:^[25]

They are defeasible (cancellable), meaning that the implicature may exist cancelled by further information or context.^[26] Take the examples from higher up:

That block looks delicious. +> I would like a piece of that cake.

versus: That cake looks delicious, simply it looks too rich for me. (implicature defeated)

A: Did John eat some of the cookies?

B: He certainly did consume some of the cookies. In fact he ate them all.

They are usually non-detachable in the sense that they cannot be "detached" past rephrasing the utterance, as they are consequences of the significant and not the wording. The obvious exception are implicatures following from the maxim of manner, which explicitly relies on the phrasing.^[27] Thus, the following utterances have the same implicature as higher up:

That fruit cake there looks appetizing.

The dessert you brought is really mouthwatering.

Conversational implicatures are calculable: they are supposed to be formally derivable from the literal significant of the utterance in combination with the cooperative principle and the maxims, also as contextual information and background cognition.^{[28] [29]}

They are non-conventional, that is, they are not part of the "conventional" (lexical and logical) pregnant of a sentence.^[29]

Lastly, they tin can exist context dependent, as mentioned above.^[29]

Opting out of the cooperative principle [edit]

The cooperative principle and the maxims of chat are not mandatory. A communicator can choose not to be cooperative; she can opt out of the cooperative principle past giving appropriate clues such as saying "My lips are sealed", or for example during a cross-examination at court. In such situations, no conversational implicatures arise.^{[30] [31]}

Modifications to Grice's maxims [edit]

Laurence Horn

Various modifications to Grice's maxims have been proposed by other linguists, the and then-chosen neo-Griceans.^[6] Laurence Horn'southward approach keeps the maxims of quality and replaces the other maxims with simply ii principles:

• The Q-principle: Make your contribution sufficient; say as much as yous can (given the quality maxims and the R-principle).
• The R-principle: Make your contribution necessary; say no more than than you lot must (given the Q-principle).

The Q-principle replaces the kickoff quantity proverb ("make your contribution as informative as is required") and the first and second manner maxims ("avert obscurity and ambiguity"), and is taken to serve the interests of the hearer, who wants as much information as possible. Information technology thus gives rising to the classical scalar implicatures. The R-principle subsumes the 2d quantity proverb ("do not make your contribution more than informative than is required"), the proverb of relation, and the remaining manner maxims ("be cursory and orderly"), and serves the interests of the speaker, who wants to communicate with equally little effort as possible. These ii principles take opposite effects coordinating to Grice's two maxims of quantity.^{[32] [33]} To determine which of the two principles is used, Horn introduces the concept of division of pragmatic labor: unmarked (shorter, standard, more lexicalized) phrasings tend to R-implicate a standard meaning, and marked (more wordy, unusual, less lexicalized) phrasings tend to Q-implicate a nonstandard pregnant:^[34]

She stopped the machine. +> She stopped the auto in the usual mode. (R-implicature: a stronger, more than specific claim is implicated)

She got the machine to stop. +> She did not finish the machine in the usual way. (Q-implicature: the stronger claim is negated, every bit with scalar implicatures)

Horn'southward account has been criticised for misrepresenting the speaker'southward and hearer's interests: realistically, the hearer does not want a lot of information just just the relevant data; and the speaker is more interested in being understood than in having fiddling work to do. Furthermore, as in Grice's theory, there is often no explanation for when which of the two principles is used, i.e. why "I lost a book yesterday" has the Q-implicature, or scalar implicature, that the book was the speaker's, while "I slept on a boat yesterday" R-implicates that the boat wasn't the speaker's.^[33]

Stephen Levinson

Stephen Levinson's approach is like to Horn's. His Q-principle is basically the same, but its antagonist, the I-principle, only takes the place of the second quantity maxim. There is a separate M-principle more or less respective to the third and fourth manner maxims, too equally to Horn's sectionalisation of businesslike labor; merely there is no replacement for the maxim of relation.^{[35] [36] [37]}

• The Yard-principle: Signal abnormal, nonstereotypical situations by using marked expressions that contrast with those you would use to describe the respective normal, stereotypical situations.^[38]

Levinson afterward developed a theory of generalized conversational implicature (GCI) based on the Q-principle. He argues that GCIs are singled-out from particularized conversational implicatures in that they are inferred via a specialized prepare of principles and rules that are always in force, independent of the context. If a GCI does not arise in some specific situations, this is considering information technology is blocked under certain circumstances according to Levinson.^{[39] [xl]}

Criticism [edit]

Apart from the mentioned trouble with the two opposing quantity maxims, several issues with Grice's conversational implicatures have been raised:

Do implicatures contrast with entailments?

While Grice described conversational implicatures as contrasting with entailments, there has since been dissent.

A: Did you bulldoze somewhere yesterday?

B: I collection to London.

Hither, B implicates via the saying of relation that he drove somewhere (as this is the fitting respond to A's question), only this information is also entailed past his answer.^{[v] [41]}

Are quantity implicatures actually implicatures?

At least some scalar and other quantity "implicatures" seem non to be implicatures at all only semantic enrichments of the utterance, what is variously described every bit an explicature or impliciture in the literature. For example, Kent Bach argues that a judgement similar "John ate some of the cookies" does not implicate "John didn't eat all of the cookies" because the latter isn't a claim separate from the get-go; rather, the speaker just has a single pregnant in mind, namely "John ate some [but not all] of the cookies".^[42] Too, Robyn Carston considers cases like "He drank a bottle of vodka and [consequently] barbarous into a stupor" explicatures;^[43] however, she considers the question of classical scalar implicatures ("some, few, many") to be unsettled.^[40]

Can metaphors only ascend when the outset maxim of quality is flouted?

As experimental evidence shows, it is not necessary to evaluate the truth of an utterance's literal meaning in gild to recognise a metaphor.^[44] An example of a metaphor that is also literally true is a chess histrion telling his opponent, in appropriate circumstances,^[45]

Your defence is an impregnable castle.

Are events ever related in order?

Credible counterexamples to the maxim "be orderly" take been found, such as this:^[46]

A: My wife wants me to remove our carpets. She is afraid she might trip and hurt herself, but I call up she is just overanxious.

B: Well, I don't know. John broke his leg and he tripped over a doormat.

Are there particularized and generalized implicatures?

Carston observes that particularized and generalized conversational implicatures are not dissever categories; rather, there is a continuum from implicatures that are highly dependent on a specific situation which is unlikely to happen twice, to ones that occur very frequently. In her view, the distinction has no theoretical value since all implicatures are derived from the aforementioned principles.^[47]

Can implicatures but arise when the communicator is cooperative?

Take the higher up case about Gérard's place of residence. If B knows where Gérard lives, and A knows this, we too go an implicature, although a different one:

A: Where does Gérard live?

B: Somewhere in the South of France. +> B does not desire to say where exactly Gérard lives. +> B does not desire to visit Gérard.

This contradicts Grice'southward notion that implicatures can simply ascend when the communicator observes the cooperative principle.^[48]

Implicature in relevance theory [edit]

In the framework known equally relevance theory, implicature is defined as a counterpart to explicature. The explicatures of an utterance are the communicated assumptions that are developed from its logical form (intuitively, the literal meaning) past supplying boosted information from context: past disambiguating ambiguous expressions, assigning referents to pronouns and other variables, and so on. All communicated assumptions that cannot be obtained in this way are implicatures.^{[49] [fifty]} For example, if Peter says

Susan told me that her kiwis were too sour.

in the context that Susan participated in a fruit grower's contest, the hearer might arrive at the explicature

Susan told Peter that the kiwifruit she, Susan, grew were too sour for the judges at the fruit grower's contest.

Now assume that Peter and the hearer both take access to the contextual information that

Susan is ambitious. If she loses at something, she'southward pretty downcast.

and that Peter intended the hearer to actuate this knowledge. Then this is an implicated premise. The hearer can now depict the contextual implications that

+> Susan needs to be cheered up.

+> Peter wants me to band Susan and cheer her up.

If Peter intended the hearer to come to these implications, they are implicated conclusions. Implicated premises and conclusions are the 2 types of implicatures in the relevance theoretical sense.^[51]

There is no sharp cutoff between implicatures, which are function of the intentional meaning of an utterance, and unintended implications the leaseholder may draw. For example, there may be no consensus whether

?+> Peter wants me to buy Susan some chocolate to cheer her up.

is an implicature of the above utterance. We say this assumption is only weakly implicated,^[52] while "Susan needs to be cheered upward" is essential for the utterance to achieve relevance for the addressee and is therefore strongly implicated.^[53]

The principle of relevance [edit]

Communicative principle of relevance Every utterance conveys the information that it is
(a) relevant plenty for information technology to exist worth the addressee's effort to process it.
(b) the most relevant one compatible with the communicator's abilities and preferences.
— adapted from Sperber & Wilson (1995:270)

Both explicatures and implicatures follow from the communicative principle of relevance, which different Grice's cooperative principle is not optional, but is e'er in strength whenever someone communicates – it is descriptive of, not prescriptive for, communicative acts. Consequently, implicatures tin arise even if, or precisely because, the communicator is uncooperative. Relevance theory can therefore effortlessly business relationship for the above case well-nigh Gérard: If B knows where Gérard lives, and "Somewhere in the South of France" is the most relevant answer compatible with B'due south preferences, it follows that B is unwilling to disclose his knowledge.^[48]

Distinction from explicatures [edit]

All pragmatically derived information, including parts of explicatures that are supplied from context, is calculable and defeasible. Therefore, different criteria are needed in relevance theory to identify implicatures.^[fifty]

Sperber and Wilson originally assumed that implicatures can be sufficiently divers equally the communicated assumptions that are not developed from an utterance's logical class, equally noted above. On this account, loose linguistic communication use (saying "This steak is raw" to limited that it is really undercooked) is a instance of implicature, equally are hyperbole and metaphor.^{[54] [55]}

Carston has argued for a more than formal approach, namely that an utterance'due south implicatures cannot entail any of its explicatures. If they did, the resulting redundancies would cause unnecessary effort on office of the addressee, which would run against the principle of relevance. An example of pragmatically derived information that has traditionally been seen every bit an implicature, but must be an explicature according to Carston'due south reasoning, has already been mentioned in a higher place: "He drank a bottle of vodka and fell into a shock" → "He drank a canteen of vodka and consequently brutal into a stupor".^[l] However, there has since been found at least one case of an implicature that does entail an explicature, showing that this test is not infallible:^[56]

A: Did Jim go to the party?

B: I don't know, just I can tell you lot that if everyone was there, Jim was there.

A: Somebody was there – this I know for sure. (I saw John going there.) +> Jim was there. (entails: Somebody was there.)

Another possible criterion is that explicatures, but not implicatures, can be embedded in negations, if clauses and other grammatical constructions. Thus, the sentences

Susan did not tell Peter that her kiwis were too sour.

If Susan has told Peter that her kiwis were too sour, she was but fishing for compliments.

are equivalent to

Susan did not tell Peter that the kiwifruit she, Susan, grew were also sour for the judges.

If Susan told Peter that the kiwifruit she, Susan, grew were also sour for the judges, she was simply line-fishing for compliments.

respectively, showing the embedded clause to be an explicature. On the other paw, they are not equivalent to embeddings of the mentioned implicature:

*Susan does not need to be cheered upwards.

*If Susan needs to be cheered up, she is just fishing for compliments.

These embedding tests also show the vodka canteen example to be an explicature. All the same, there is even so no generally accustomed benchmark to reliably distinguish explicatures and implicatures.^[57]

Poetic effects [edit]

Metaphors can be an efficient ways to communicate a wide range of weak implicatures. For example,

Jane is my anchor in the tempest.

tin can weakly implicate that Jane is reliable and stable in hard circumstances, helpful in calming the speaker, and and so on. Even if the speaker had no specific set of assumptions in heed, this data can give the addressee an thought of Jane's significance to the speaker's life.^[58]

Speaking generally, utterances convey poetic effects if they achieve all or most of their relevance through a range of weak implicatures. For case, the repetition in

My childhood days are gone, gone.

does non add to the utterance'due south explicature, prompting the addressee to search for implicatures. To exercise so, he has to activate contextual (groundwork) information virtually childhood memories.^[59]

Irony is seen as an entirely different phenomenon in relevance theory; come across Relevance theory#Estimation vs. clarification for an explanation.

Criticism [edit]

Levinson sees relevance theory every bit as well reductionist, as a single principle cannot account for the big variety of implicatures in his view. In item, he argues that this theory cannot account for generalized implicatures because it is inherently a theory of context dependency. This argument is countered past Carston, as mentioned in a higher place. Too, Levinson asserts that relevance theory cannot explicate how we get in at implicated premises via creative processes.^[60]

The foundations of relevance theory have been criticised because relevance, in the technical sense it is used there, cannot be measured,^[61] so it is not possible to say what exactly is meant by "relevant plenty" and "the near relevant".

Carston generally agrees with the relevance theoretic concept of implicature, but argues that Sperber and Wilson allow implicatures do also much work. The mentioned embedding tests not simply categorize utterances on the likes of the vodka bottle instance as explicatures, but also loose use and metaphors:^[62]

If your steak is raw, yous can ship it back.

If Jane is your ballast in the storm, yous should permit her help you now.

She does not explain metaphors' broad range of effects with weak implicatures. Instead, she advocates the idea that the meaning of words and phrases can be adjusted to fit specific contexts; in other words, new concepts that differ from the standard significant can exist constructed advertising hoc during communication. In the above metaphor, the phrase "anchor in the storm" has many slightly different advert-hoc meanings, and no specific one is exclusively communicated. Carston also discusses the possibility that metaphors cannot be fully explained by communicated assumptions at all, be they explicatures or implicatures, simply with other concepts such as evoking mental images, sensations and feelings.^[63]

Conventional implicature [edit]

Conventional implicatures, briefly introduced only never elaborated on by Grice, are independent of the cooperative principle and the four maxims.^[64] They are instead tied to the conventional significant of certain particles and phrases such as "but, although, however, nevertheless, moreover, anyway, whereas, after all, even, nonetheless, still, besides",^[65] verbs such as "deprive, spare",^[66] and possibly also to grammatical structures. (Such words and phrases are as well said to trigger conventional implicatures.^[67]) In add-on, they are not defeasible, but have the force of entailments.^{[68] [69]} An example:

Donovan is poor but happy.

This sentence is logically equivalent to – that is, information technology has the same truth conditions as – "Donovan is poor and happy". In addition, the discussion "but" implicates a sense of dissimilarity. Taken together, the sentence means approximately "Surprisingly, Donovan is happy in spite of beingness poor".

The verbs "deprive" and "spare" too have the same truth conditions merely different conventional implicatures. Compare:^[66]

I take deprived you of my lecture. +> Attending my lecture would have been desirable (for you).

I take spared you my lecture. +> Attending my lecture would not have been desirable (for you).

Not-restrictive supplements such as the post-obit adjective phrase have been argued to exist grammatical structures that produce conventional implicatures:^[70]

Yewberry jelly, toxic in the extreme, will requite you an awful stomachache.

The implicature here is that yewberry jelly is toxic in the extreme. Other such constructions are non-restrictive appositives, relative clauses and as-parentheticals:^[67]

Ravel, as a Frenchman, all the same wrote Spanish-style music.

Criticism [edit]

Considering of the mentioned differences to conversational (and relevance theoretical) implicatures, it has been argued that "conventional implicatures" are non implicatures at all but rather secondary propositions or entailments of an utterance. Under this view, the sentence nigh Donovan would accept the chief suggestion "Donovan is poor and happy" and the secondary proposition "There is a contrast between poverty and happiness". The sentence about yewberry jelly contains the two propositions "Yewberry jelly volition give y'all an awful stomachache" and "Yewberry jelly is toxic in the farthermost".^{[69] [71]}

Other analyses of "only" and similar words have been proposed. Rieber takes above sentence to mean "Donovan is poor and (I suggest this contrasts) happy" and calls it a tacit (i.e. silent, implied) performative. Blakemore claims that "but" does not convey a proffer, and does not work past encoding a concept at all, but by constraining the addressee'south interpretation procedure.^[72] In our example, "but" indicates that "Donovan is happy" is relevant specifically as a deprival of an expectation created by "Donovan is poor", and rules out the possibility that it is relevant in any other way. This expectation must be on the lines of "Poor people are unhappy".^[73] Blakemore's thought that not only concepts but also procedures can be encoded in language has been taken up by many other researchers.^[74]

See also [edit]

• Entailment, or implication, in logic
• Gratis choice inference
• Indirect speech deed
• Presupposition

References [edit]

1. ^ Davis (2019, department 14)
2. ^ Grice (1975:24–26)
3. ^ ^{a b} Grice (1975:32)
4. ^ Blackburn (1996:189)
5. ^ ^{a b} Blome-Tillmann (2013:1, iii)
6. ^ ^{a b c} Carston (1998:one)
7. ^ Bach (1999:327)
8. ^ Sperber & Wilson (1995:176–183, 193–202)
9. ^ ^{a b} Carston (1998)
10. ^ Levinson (1983:100–102)
11. ^ Wilson & Sperber (1981)
12. ^ ^{a b c d} Levinson (1983:104–108)
13. ^ ^{a b c} Levinson (1983:132–136)
14. ^ Holtgraves & Kraus (2018)
15. ^ Carston (1998:10)
16. ^ Carston (1998:one, 3, five)
17. ^ Levinson (1983:126–127)
18. ^ Carston (1998:7, 11)
19. ^ Grice (1975:32–33)
20. ^ ^{a b c d e} Levinson (1983:109–112)
21. ^ ^{a b} Grice (1975:33–37)
22. ^ Levinson (1983:111)
23. ^ Grice (1975:37–38)
24. ^ Carston (2002:96)
25. ^ Grice (1975:39–40)
26. ^ Birner (2012:62–66)
27. ^ Levinson (1983:116–117)
28. ^ Grice (1975:31)
29. ^ ^{a b c} Levinson (1983:117–118)
30. ^ Grice (1975:thirty)
31. ^ Carston (1998:29)
32. ^ Horn (1989:193–203)
33. ^ ^{a b} Carston (1998:4–five)
34. ^ Horn (2004:16)
35. ^ Levinson (1987)
36. ^ Carston (1998:vi)
37. ^ Davis (2019, section eleven)
38. ^ Levinson (2000:136–137)
39. ^ Levinson (2000)
40. ^ ^{a b} Carston (2002:258–259)
41. ^ Bach (2006, #3)
42. ^ Bach (2006, #nine)
43. ^ Carston (2002:228)
44. ^ Wilson & Sperber (2002:268)
45. ^ Levinson (1983:151)
46. ^ Carston (2002:235)
47. ^ Carston (2002:142)
48. ^ ^{a b} Sperber & Wilson (1995:273–274)
49. ^ Carston (2002:377)
50. ^ ^{a b c} Carston (1988:158, 169–170)
51. ^ Sperber & Wilson (1995:176–183)
52. ^ Sperber & Wilson (1995:199)
53. ^ Wilson & Sperber (2002:269–270)
54. ^ Sperber & Wilson (1995:231–237)
55. ^ Carston (2002:333)
56. ^ Carston (2002:190)
57. ^ Carston (2002:191–196)
58. ^ Carston (2002:157–158)
59. ^ Sperber & Wilson (1995:221–222)
60. ^ Levinson (1989:465–466)
61. ^ Davis (2019, section 12)
62. ^ Carston (2002:337–338)
63. ^ Carston (2002:356–358)
64. ^ Kordić (1991:93)
65. ^ Carston (2002:53)
66. ^ ^{a b} Carston (2002:295)
67. ^ ^{a b} Davis (2019, section 2)
68. ^ Grice (1975:25–26)
69. ^ ^{a b} Potts (2005:1–2)
70. ^ Potts (2005:two–iii)
71. ^ Bach (1999:328, 345)
72. ^ Blakemore (2000:466–467, 472)
73. ^ Blakemore (1989:26)
74. ^ Sperber & Wilson (1995:258)

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Further reading [edit]

Look upward implicature in Wiktionary, the free lexicon.

• Brown, Benjamin (2014). "'Merely Me No Buts': The Theological Fence Between the Hasidim and the Mitnagdim in Light of the Soapbox-Markers Theory". Numen. 61 (5–6): 525–551. doi:10.1163/15685276-12341341.
• Brown, Benjamin (2014). "'Some Say This, Some Say That': Pragmatics and Discourse Markers in Yad Malachi'south Interpretation Rules". Language and Law. 3: 1–20.
• Hancher, Michael (1978). "Grice's "Implicature" and Literary Interpretation: Background and Preface". Twentieth Almanac Meeting Midwest Modern Language Association.
• Zabbal, Youri (2008). "Conversational Implicatures" (PDF). Boston University.

External links [edit]

• Davis, Wayne. "Implicature". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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