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What is conventional implicature according to Grice?
Conventional implicature is non-truth-conditional meaning arising solely because of the conventional features attached to particular lexical items and/or linguistic constructions, which is not derivable from general considerations of cooperation and rationality from the saying of what is said.
What are the properties of conventional implicature?
The properties of conventional implicature include: no contribution to truth condition, associated with speaker/utterance (not sentence), conversational, conventional, derived from Grice’s co-operative principle and maxims, attached by convention to particular items and constructions, non-conventional, motivated, arbitrary, not calculable (given by convention), cancellable, detachable, non-universal.
What are the Horn's 4 properties of conventional implicature?
The Horn's 4 properties of conventional implicature are: conventionality – part of conventional meaning of the linguist.
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