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  • Implicature: Olivia was actively working on finishing Cooking with Vivian.

    Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010

  • Gazdar, G. (1979a) Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition, and Logical Form.

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

  • Davis, W.A. (1998) Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory.

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

  • Implicature has also been used to explain lexical gaps.

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

  • Implicature is often invoked in this way to defend controversial semantic claims.

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

  • “Accomodation, Meaning, and Implicature: Interdisciplinary Foundations for Pragmatics.”

    Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

  • Optimality-Theoretic and Game-Theoretic Approaches to Implicature (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2009 Edition)

    Optimality-Theoretic and Game-Theoretic Approaches to Implicature van Rooij, Robert 2006

  • Saul, J. (2001) Review of Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory by Wayne Davis.

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

  • The Top 10 Misconceptions about Implicature [PDF], by Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

  • Implicature (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2009 Edition)

    Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005

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