Conversational implicature
Document Type
Encyclopedia entry
Source Publication
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences
Publication Date
1-1-2011
First Page
223
Last Page
225
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Abstract
The British philosopher Herbert Paul Grice observed that the total significance of an utterance embraces not only “what is said” but what is implied. His term of art for the latter was “implicature，” and he identified conversational implicature as an important type of implicit meaning or signification.
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2011 Cambridge University Press
Additional Information
ISBN of the source publication: 9780521866897
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Livingston, P. (2011). Conversational implicature. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences (pp. 223-225). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.