implicature

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English

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Etymology

Coined by British philosopher Paul Grice before or in 1967.

Pronunciation

Noun

implicature (plural implicatures)

  1. (pragmatics) An implied meaning that does not semantically entail.

Usage notes

Collocations
  • Adjectives often applied to "implicature": scalar, conventional, conversational, generalized, particularized, contextual.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Earliest known usages in the following, note a foot note specifies that the contents are from a lecture given in 1967: H P Grice (1975) “Logic and Conversation”, in Peter Cole, Jerry L. Morgan, editors, Speech Acts (Syntax and Semantics; 3), New York: Academic Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 41–58

Latin

Participle

implicātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of implicātūrus
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