Glossary term N

Nonconventional Implicature

An nonconventional implicature is a implicature that is drawn in accordance with pragmatic principles, such as the cooperative principle or the informativeness principle, rather than the meaning of a lexical item or expression.

More specific concepts within nonconventional implicature.

  1. Levinson 1983, 127–128, 131–132
  2. Gazdar 1979, 49–50
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