implicature

linguistics

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  • Plato
    In philosophy of language: Implicatures

    Austin’s Oxford colleague H.P. Grice (1913–88) developed a sophisticated theory of how nonliteral aspects of meaning are generated and recovered through the exploitation of general principles of rational cooperation as adapted to conversational contexts. An utterance such as She got married and raised a…

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