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It is quite normal that in our daily communication,people sometimes do not produce utterances that containing their real meaning for various reasons,that is to say they implicate something by saying something else.Grandy and Warner(2006)suggest that people experience implicatures all of the time in their life and are seldom aware of it.Therefore,it is interesting to investigate the implicature of people’s utterances.People often tend to simply use‘implicature’to refer to the notion‘conversational implicature’for a shorthand,but actually they cannot be treated as the exactly same notion.Horn(2004)points out“Implicature is component of speaker meaning that constitutes an aspect of what is meant in a speaker’s utterance without being part of what is said”Horn’s notion of implicature is close to the notion that Grice calls conversational implicature.Grice(1975)classified implicature into conventional implicature and nonconventional implicature and treated the conversational implicature to a subclass of the nonconventional implicature,which means the implicature is not part of the conventional meaning of the sentence uttered but greatly depends on the particular conversational context.
It is quite normal that in our daily communication, people who do not produce utterances that containing their real meaning for various reasons, that is to say they implicate something by saying something else. Grandy and Warner (2006) suggest that people experience implicatures all of the time in their life and are seldom aware of it.Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the implicature of people’s utterances.People often tend to simply use’implicature’to refer to the notion’conversational implicature’for a shorthand, but actually they can not be treated as the exactly same notion. Horn (2004) points out “Implicature is component of speaker meaning that an an aspect of what is meant in a speaker’s utterance without being part of what is said ” Horn’s notion of implicature is close to the notion that Grice calls conversational implicature. Grice (1975) classified implicature into conventional implicature and nonconventional implicature and treated the conversational implicature to a subclass of the nonconventional implicature, which means the implicature is not part of the normal meaning of the sentence uttered but greatly depends on the particular conversational context.