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Grice’s theory of Implicature - Coggle Diagram
Grice’s theory of Implicature
Grice’s Maxims of Conversation
The Cooperative Principle
The Maxims of Conversation
Quantity
Relation
Quality
Manner
Featurtes of conversational implicatures
The fact that they
are defeasible.
The inference can be cancelled by adding
an additional premise
Types of implicatures
Generalized Conversational Implicature
The meaning that the intended inference
depends on particular features of the specific context of the utterance.
Conventional Implicature
Is part
of the conventional meaning of a word or construction
Sometimes we mean more than we say
Utterance
meaning includes the semantic content plus any pragmatic meaning created by
the use of the sentence in a specific context.
Conversational implicatures
Speaker intends for the hearer to understand both the
sentence meaning and the implicature;
Conversational implicatures are context-dependent, as discussed above.
The implicature is different from the literal sentence meaning.
What is implicated is different from “what is said”.
Conversational implicatures are often unmistakable, but they are not “in-
evitable”
How to tell one kind of inference from another
Linguistic inference
to be rested to determine the nature of the inference
use several tests whenever possible, and choose
the analysis that best explains the full range of available data