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What is an implicature?

What is an implicature? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pragmatics) An implied meaning that is not expressed directly.
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The approach combines a constrained-based semantics with a general mechanism of conversational implicature.
Accordingly in this entry we will consider the relations among speech acts and: semantic content, grammatical mood, speaker-meaning, logically perfect languages, perlocutions, performatives, presuppositions, and implicature.
This is all implicature, and the shared understanding of the potential communication example means you should avoid situations which could annoy people.
So far, the results of embedding, detachability, and the substantive character of the EPC's meaning contribution point to its status as a conventional implicature.
One piece of evidence supporting the implicature hypothesis is that the exclusive interpretation seems cancelable.
The pronoun ni '3SG' is usually not used in such cases, as its use carries the pragmatic implicature that the subject is not coreferential with the preceding antecedent.

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