LING 3P94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Implicature, Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act
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There"s a yellow honda outside sue"s house. Not exactly certain where bill is, but want to give as much information as possible so state his car is outside sues house, so this implies bill is probably there. We can get the implicature from a proposition only in context. What is meant (illocutionary force) what is said (locutionary) what is implicated. The capital of the us is washington, dc and the capital of canada is ottawa. He went up to the bar and ordered a drink. And means p+q + temporal sequence (= implicature) Conventional implicature is implicature attached to a particular expression as part of its agreed meaning (outside of context) ~p +situation expect to change to opposite p to be true later. Generalized conversation implicature is inferable without reference to context and associated with certain expressions. Example, some implies not most, many or all. Maxim of quantity: give as much info as needed.
