Chapter 5
Implicature, entailment, and presupposition
Differences and commonalities
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Conventional implicature
- 3.Conversational implicature
- 3.1Suspendability and cancelability
- 3.2Non-detachability
- 3.3Calculability
- 3.4Non-codability of conversational implicatures
- 3.5Reinforceability
- 3.5.1Reinforceability of implicature
- 3.5.2Reinforceability of entailment
- 3.5.3Reinforceability of presuppositions
- 3.5.4Conclusion: Reinforced implicature, entailment, and presupposition
- 3.6Universality vs. culture-specificity of conversational implicatures
- 3.6.1Scalar conversational implicatures: A possible universal
- 3.6.2Language- and culture-specific implicatures
- 4.Conclusion
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Notes