implicature

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In contrast to the gas station scenario, the next example involves apparent violation of the "Be relevant" maxim in a very clear way in order to produce the intended implicature.

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  1. noun The aspect of meaning that a speaker conveys, implies, or suggests without directly expressing. Although the utterance "Can you pass the salt?” is literally a request for information about one's ability to pass salt, the understood implicature is a request for salt.
  2. noun The process by which such a meaning is conveyed, implied, or suggested. In saying "Some dogs are mammals,” the speaker conveys by implicature that not all dogs are mammals.

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  • Experimental investigations of scalar implicature. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Precis of The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought cognition concepts enrichment evolution evolutionary explicature folk implicature indexicals inference mind modularity of philosophy pragmatics psychology scalar semantics theory CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Fodors Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind cognition concepts enrichment evolution evolutionary explicature folk implicature indexicals inference mind modularity of philosophy pragmatics psychology scalar semantics theory CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We discuss implications of our findings for the relationship between linguistic and conceptual representations during development. cognition coherence concepts discourse enrichment estonian evidentiality evolution evolutionary explicature folk genre implicature indexicals inference mind modularity of philosophy pragmatics psychology relevance scalar semantcs semantics tense theory time type CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Tense and Time in Counterfactual Conditionals cognition coherence concepts discourse enrichment estonian evidentiality evolution evolutionary explicature folk genre implicature indexicals inference mind modularity of philosophy pragmatics psychology relevance scalar semantcs semantics tense theory time type CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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