explicature
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English
Etymology
From explicate + -ure, after implicature.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛkˈsplɪkətʃə/, /ɪkˈsplɪkətʃə/, /ˈɛksplɪkətʃə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɛkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/, /ɪkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/
Noun
explicature (countable and uncountable, plural explicatures)
- (linguistics) Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.
- 2012, Jodie Clark, Language, Sex and Social Structure:
- In relevance theory terms, he must construct a hypothesis about the explicit content of Ally's utterance;that is, he mustrely upon both the words she uses in this utterance and an inferencing process to construct an explicature.
- 2013, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, page 136:
- If the speaker was your flat-mate and you had a habit of borrowing her property without permission, she might be asking you if you'd 'borrowed' the book she owned (explicature) and the utterance might be taken as a demand for its return.
Latin
Participle
explicātūre