LING 3P94 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Implicature, Party Tonight, Pragmatics
28 Feb 2016
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Conversational implicature speaker meaning involved more that what is said. There is a yellow vw parked outside sue"s place p= propositional meaning q= bill is probably at sue"s place q= implied meaning. We get q from p only in context. Without context, we won"t understand implied meaning. Speech acts: inquire-inform (not very helpful in inferring q) Speech act theory does not tell us about what is implied by speaker"s utterance. Grice"s pragmatics looks at how hearer infers meaning. Implicature attached to a particular expression as part of its agreed meaning. Associated with specific words with additional meanings when used. Doesn"t have to be in conversation not based on principles of language use such as the. Not dependent on specific context for interpretation. Sue suggested black, but i chose white (p + q + contrast) Even john came to the party (p + contrary to expectation = unexpected. Mary isn"t here yet (p + situation expected to change to the opposite)
