Implicature is a technical term in the pragmatics subfield of linguistics, coined by H. P. Grice, which refers to what is suggested in an utterance, even though neither expressed nor strictly implied (that is, entailed) by the utterance. For example, the sentence `Mary had a baby and got married` strongly suggests that Mary had the baby before t.....
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(from the article `language, philosophy of`) Austin`s Oxford colleague H.P. Grice (1913–88) developed a sophisticated theory of how nonliteral aspects of meaning are generated and recovered ...
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potential inference that is not logical entailment. Cf. conversational implicature.
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