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Keenan, Elinor Ochs. 1977. The universality of conversational implicatures. In Fasold, Ralph W. and Roger W. Shuy, eds. Studies in language variation: Semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics, social situations, ethnographic approaches. Georgetown University Press. pp. 255–268.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational implicature | language universal

Language as a subject

Malagasy

Annotation

An investigation of the validity of the claim that Grice's 'conversational implicature' is a universal phenomenon in conversation, on the basis of an examination of the concept in a non-Western society, viz. on Madagascar.