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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 communicat
Implicature, what is suggested in an utterance, even though neither expressed nor strictly implied; Implicational universal or linguistic universal, a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages
In pragmatics, scalar implicature, or quantity implicature, [1] is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning of an utterance, and which suggests that the utterer had a reason for not using a more informative or stronger term on the same scale.
Implicate can refer to: Implicature , what is suggested or implied with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed Implicate order , a concept in quantum theory
Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913 – 28 August 1988), [1] usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean maxims), which became foundational concepts in the linguistic field of pragmatics.
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