What is a nonconversational implicature?

A nonconversational implicature is a nonconventional implicature that arises from the operation of a principle or maxim of language usage other than the cooperative principle and conversational maxims, such as an implicature derived from an assumption of the informativeness principle.

• What is the informativeness principle?

• What is a nonconventional implicature?

Levinson 1983 131

Context for this page:

• Concept module: nonconversational implicature
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): N
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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