By flouting the maxim of quantity, the speaker invokes the maxim of quality, leading to the implicature that the speaker does not have the evidence to give a specific location where he believes John is.
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A conversational implicature is said to be " non-detachable " when, after the replacement of what is said with another expression with the same literal meaning, the same conversational implicature remains.
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A conversational implicature is said to be " non-detachable " when, after the replacement of what is said with another expression with the same literal meaning, the same conversational implicature remains.
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Given that a speaker means a given proposition " p " by a given utterance, Grice suggests several features which " p " must possess in order to count as a conversational implicature.
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The most investigated topic in experimental pragmatics is scalar implicature, which concerns the way a weakly expressed utterance ( e . g . " Some of their identity documents are forgeries " ) is interpreted.
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Perhaps Grice's best-known example of conversational implicature is the case of the reference letter, a " quantity implicature " ( i . e ., because it involves flouting the first maxim of Quantity ):
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Perhaps Grice's best-known example of conversational implicature is the case of the reference letter, a " quantity implicature " ( i . e ., because it involves flouting the first maxim of Quantity ):
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Grice justifies this neologism by saying that " Implicature'is a blanket word to avoid having to make choices between words like imply', suggest', indicate', and mean'".
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"' Nondetachability : "'" The implicature is nondetachable insofar as it is not possible to find another way of saying the same thing ( or approximately the same thing ) which simply lacks the implicature ."
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"' Nondetachability : "'" The implicature is nondetachable insofar as it is not possible to find another way of saying the same thing ( or approximately the same thing ) which simply lacks the implicature ."
