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Implicature : - Coggle Diagram

- - - - It is a part of a lexical item's or expression's agreed meaning, rather than derived from principles of language use, and. not part of the conditions for the truth of the item or expression
    - - A: How is the weather?
        B: There is wind, but it is still very hot.
  - - - Def
        
        choosing a word which express one value from a scale
        
        the negative of all forms higher on the scaleis is implicated
      - Ex
        
        My mum sometimes goes shopping at the weekends.
        => not always, not often
    - - Def
        
        No special background knowledge of the context of utterance is require.
        
        Generalized implicature is a conversational implicature that is inferable without reference to a special context.
        
        => not depend on particular features of the context, but is instead typically asssociated with the proposition expressed.
      - Ex
        
        John walked into a house yesterday and saw a large swimming pool.
        => This expression implies that the house is not John’s house.
    - - Def
        
        special knowledge of particular context of utterance is require
        
        Particularized conversational implicature occurs when a conversation takes place in a very specific context in which locally recognized inferences are assumed.
      - Ex