| 单词 | conversational implicature |
| 释义 | conversational implicaturenoun Philosophy, Linguistics.an inference that can be drawn from an utterance, as from one that is seemingly illogical or irrelevant, by examining the degree to which it conforms to the canons of normal conversation and the way it functions pragmatically within the situation, as when “The phone is ringing,” said in a situation where both speaker and listener can clearly hear the phone, can be taken as a suggestion to answer the phone. Origin of conversational implicatureFirst recorded in 1970–75 Words nearby conversational implicatureconversable, conversant, conversate, conversation, conversational, conversational implicature, conversationalist, conversational quality, conversation chair, conversation piece, conversation pit Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for conversational implicatureconversational implicature nounlogic philosophy another term for implicature Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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