Implicature
- 2. Implicature Briner, Gricean Implicature,ch.2 Supervisor, DR.Aziz Al-Bitar Presented by Eman Al-Omari Semanticsandpragmatics
- 3. -Definition -Grice theory -Maxims of Implicature -Types of Implicature Semantics and pragmatics
- 4. Semantics: the study of meaning. deals with the literal words and the meaning of the way they are combined . Pragmatics: concerns with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker or writer and interpreted by listener or reader.(it is the study of speaker meaning). Fields of linguistic meaning: Semantics and pragmatics
- 5. Pragmatics asks: “What do you mean by “……”?” Semantics asks: “What does “……” mean?” Semantics and pragmatics In the uses of language what is meant is often more than , or different from, what has actually been said.
- 6. He was so tired he could sleep for days. Semantically He was so tired he could sleep for days. Pragmatically he was really tired. Semantics vs. pragmatics
- 7. .The speaker `s role is to enable the hearer to invite the right inferences. An invited inference is called Implicature and is implicated by the speaker. Implicature can be considered as an additional conveyed meaning. Pragmatics: Implicature :
- 8. Is a systematic part of communication which involves the interplay between what a speaker actually said and certain broad rules, shared by speakers and hearers, which govern communication.(Gricean Implicature) Implicature The hearer infersThe speaker implicates
- 9. Implicature:PaulGricetheory “The philosopher Paul outlined a of inferences that hearers draw to arrive a full understanding of what a speaker meant by utterance, especially in those cases what is meant goes will beyond the literal meaning of what is uttered. ”
- 11. “Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged”. When people talk with each other, they try to converse smoothly and successfully. Cooperation is the basis of successful conversations. cooperation CooperativePrinciple. speaker hearer
- 12. Cont…… The cooperative principle has four sub-parts, four rules or maxims that people involved in conversations tend to respect: -The maxim of quantity=say enough ,but dont say too much(Say just as much as is necessary”) -The maxim of quality=say only what you have reason to believe is true. (“Tell the truth”) -The maxim of raltion=say only what is relevant. (Make your contributions relevant.) -the maxim of manner=be breif,clear,and un ambiguous.
- 13. Observe the maxim to say only what you have evidence, to be clear, brief and un ambiguous. for Violate the maxim to fail to observe it but to do with the assumption that the hearer will not observe that the maxim is being violated. E.g. lie. Flout a maxim to violate it,whith the assumption that the hearer is to be aware. Opt out of the maxims to refuse. The speaker`s rules to make a cooperative utterance
- 14. 1-Make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange.the speaker must give enough information is idenified as the basis of a wide range of implicatures known as scalar implicature. E,g.its cool outside it`s not freezing outside. The weaker value implicate the stronger value. Cool freezing A classic scale giving rise to scalar implicature (weak) <some,most,all>(strong). Do not make the contribution more informative than is required. The maxim of quantity(maxim of informativeness
- 15. A-it`s cool outside it`s not freezing. B-I ate most of the pizza I didn’t ate all of the pizza C-I had understand some of the problems I didn’t understand all of the problems. Instances:
- 16. Scales which are defined by an entailment relation in which higher values entail lower value. I had tow bagels for breakfast that I had one bagel and implicates that I didn’t have three bagels or four……. Horn scales entails
- 17. Scalar Implicature (horn scale) All Most Some Cont… entails entails
- 18. The speaker doesn't say enough. E.g.. Do you have any bank accounts in Swiss? banks,Mr.Bronston? No, sir. Have you ever? The company had an account there for about six months, in Zurich. Non truth-conditional of quantity Implicature
- 19. Do not say what you believe to be false. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. . To only say what you believe is true Avoid saying too much. The maxim of quality (“Tell the truth”)
- 20. Today I'm going to talk about Implicature. The speaker`s rule avoid saying too much, say what is true and relevant. -The hearer's infer the truth of utterance. -the maxim leads the hearer to expect that the speaker believe what he says and have adequate evidence. The maxim of quality may be violated. (what we usually think when we think of a lie). The maxim of quality may be flouted. :Forinstance
- 21. One of the principal properties of an Implicature . It must be calculate the intended meaning given the textual and situational context. The writer writes/says something false to intend something other than what he has literally said/written. The job of the reader is to infer the intended meaning. A calculable
- 22. Make your contributions relevant. “what is meant by this maxim is that the current utterance must have something to do whith the context,it muct be related to what has come before it in the discourse and/or what is going on in the situation..” Three times Della counted it.One dollar and eighty –seven cents.and the next day would be chrismas.thre was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. The maxim of relation
- 23. Avoid obscurity.: Avoid ambiguity. Be brief. Be orderly. The maxim of manner (“Be clear”)
- 24. Types of implicature l Implicature conventional Conversational ParticularizedGeneralized
- 26. independent of the context Ex.: 2-scalar Implicature communicated by choosing a word expressing a value from a scale . Most of the mothers were vicrorian,in fact they all were. Not all Generalized conversational implicatures implicates
- 27. Due to the intraction of an utterance with a specific context. It`s going to rain tomorrow. The speaker believes the utterance is true and has reason to believe it`s true.. B-the speaker believes it`s going to rain tomorrow ,and has reason to believe it`s going to rain tomorrow. Particularized conversational implicatures It`s going to rain tomorrow
- 28. •not based on cooperative principle or maxims • encoded in the lexicon or grammar • not dependent on context for their interpretations Ex:Clover is a labrador retriever,but she`s very freindly. contrast Conventional implicatures
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