The Co-operative principle and Implicature Done by Ihtiyorjon (이튼)

The Co-operative principle and Implicature

Done by Ihtiyorjon (이튼)

Comparison between entailment and presupposition

Entailment	Presupposition
The relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (A) requires the truth of the other (B).	Presupposition is often treated as the relationship between two propositions.

Pragmatic Implicature

• Implicature is a technical term, which refers to what is suggested in an utterance, even though neither expressed nor strictly implied.
• Example:

John is meeting a woman this evening.

+> The woman John is meeting this evening is not his mother, his sister or his wife.

Subtypes of Implicature

• Implicature includes two types which are conversational implicature and conventional one.

Implicature

Conventional implicature

Conversational Implicature

Generalized

Particularized

Scalar

Indefinite