a proposition inferred from the circumstances of utterances of another proposition rather than from its literal meaning, as when an academic referee writes the candidate's handwriting is excellent to convey that he or she has nothing relevant to commend
2.
the relation between the uttered and the inferred statement
Examples of 'implicature' in a sentence
implicature
The author also refers to so-called implicature and the above-mentioned cooperative principle.
Rafał Leśniczak 2016, 'The application of Paul Grice's conversational maxims in political communication –comparative analysis of the inaugural speeches of Donald Tusk and Beata Szydlo', Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonicahttps://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/1268. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The research was intended to identify interpreting patterns of metaphor implicature.
Nengah Arnawa 2016, 'Interpretasi Pragmatis Analogis Metafora Bahasa Bali', Jurnal Kajian Balihttp://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/kajianbali/article/view/19896. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
On the other hand, the data are fully consistent with optional local implicature computation.
Uli Sauerland 2010, 'Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulousand Chemla', Semantics and Pragmaticshttp://semprag.org/article/view/136. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Rejection of such statements indicates that a (not-all) scalar implicature has been computed.
Les Sikos, Minjae Kim, Daniel J. Grodner 2019, 'Social Context Modulates Tolerance for Pragmatic Violations in Binary but Not GradedJudgments', Frontiers in Psychologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00510/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)