{"id":1111,"date":"2022-04-06T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:31:21","slug":"grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature\/","title":{"rendered":"GRICE\u2019S THEORY OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">In this article, we shall be considering some more concepts associated with Grice\u2019s theory of implicature and how they enable us to understand better how speakers and hearers are able to communicate effectively. We shall also consider some reactions by scholars to the Gricean notion of implicature.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1830\" height=\"1300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?resize=1830%2C1300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"GRICE\u2019S THEORY OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE\" class=\"wp-image-2056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?w=1830&amp;ssl=1 1830w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?resize=1024%2C727&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?resize=768%2C546&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1091&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-2422293.jpeg?resize=18%2C12&amp;ssl=1 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930149;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark886;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark884;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark883;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Conversational Implicature<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Photo by Jopwell on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/woman-in-blue-suit-jacket-2422293\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d9154a1019c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d9154a1019c\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature\/#Types_of_Conversational_Implicature\" >Types of Conversational Implicature<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature\/#Non-Conversational_Implicature\" >Non-Conversational Implicature<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature\/#Explicature\" >Explicature<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/grices-theory-of-conversational-implicature\/#CONCLUSION\" >CONCLUSION<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Types_of_Conversational_Implicature\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930149;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark886;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark884;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark883;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Types of Conversational Implicature<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Grice identifies two types of implicature (i) generalized conversational implicature (ii) particularized conversational implicature. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Generalized conversational implicature occurs irrespective of the context. For example:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark887\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(i)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Some Zambians are Muslims<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark888\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(ii)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">5 litres of fuel starts my engine<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The two statements above give rise to the same generalized implicatures regardless of the context they occur. And they remain implicatures rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/conversational-principle\/\">entailment<\/a> because in statement&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">(i) some <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Zambia<span style=\"background: white;\">ns are Muslims, it is clear that the statement may be denied. The implicature is that not all <\/span>Zambia<span style=\"background: white;\">ns are Muslims; in fact we have more Muslims in the north than there are in the south. Statement&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"background: white;\">(ii) 5 litres of fuel starts my engine, may as well be denied because the statement didn\u2019t say that 5 litres is all my engine needs to start. The engine actually requires 70 litres. The case of the generalised implicature is that the same inference,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark889\"><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">(iii)&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">not all Zambians are Muslims and that my engine needs more than 5 litres to run, are the most likely irrespective of the context.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">However, statement (i) above may give rise to other forms of implicatures which depends on the context. For example some Zambians are Muslims, while some are Christians; some are neither Muslims nor Christians, some are traditional religionists etc. Similarly for statement (ii) someone might even conclude that less than 5 litres may start my engine or more etc. Because these implicatures depend on the context of use, Grice calls them \u2018particularized implicature.\u2019 A particularized implicature is different from the generalized implicature that is associated with words like <i>some<\/i> since they are the inferences we need to make as they relate to some particular contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">You will recall that one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/conversational-principle\/\">conversational maxims<\/a> is relation or relevance, i.e. make your contribution relevant to the conversation\/context. If all implicatures were particularized, one can reasonably argue that the maxim of Relation (relevance) is enough to account for all implicatures, because the implicature would be what the addressee has to assume to render the utterance relevant to the context.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">But generalized conversational implicature does not rely on how relevant an utterance is to a context, rather on quantity (maxim of Quantity) and manner (maxim of Manner). When a speaker uses the word \u2018some\u2019 it is because s\/he is not in position to use the word \u2018all\u2019 and is therefore taken to imply \u2018not all\u2019 by the Maxim of Quantity. This is explained in the figure below:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97811075\/65234\/frontmatter\/9781107565234_frontmatter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Zufferey, S., Moeschler, J., &amp; Reboul, A. (2019). Generalized Conversational Implicatures: Gricean, Neo-Gricean and Post-Gricean Pragmatics. In\u00a0Implicatures\u00a0(Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics, pp. 111-140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/a>. <a href=\"10.1017\/9781316410875.006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">doi:10.1017\/9781316410875.006 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The above data gives rise to what is known as \u2018scalar implicature.\u2019 According to Gazdar (1979) implicature therefore operates with scales, so that one scale would include \u2018some\u2019 and \u2018all\u2019 and another \u2018do brilliantly\u2019 and \u2018make progress.\u2019 What this means is that if you take any item on a scale, the items above or below it is automatically excluded. In other words you cannot choose \u2018some\u2019 and \u2018all\u2019 at the some time. It you choose \u2018do\u2019 you automatically exclude \u2018make\u2019. Gazdar gave other hypothetical scales as &lt;certain&#8230;probable&#8230;possible&gt;&lt;and&#8230;or&gt; and &lt;must.. .may.. ,might&gt; (Grundy, 2000). This explains why you are not likely to get confused if I ask you:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark890\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(iii)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Would you like Coke or Fanta?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Of course you know that I\u2019m not asking you to choose both. My choice of \u2018or\u2019 has excluded the possibility of \u2018and\u2019 so you\u2019re sure I\u2019m saying it\u2019s either Coke or Fanta and not both. By the notion of scalar implicature, because \u2018or\u2019 is on the scale below \u2018and\u2019 a speaker selecting \u2018or\u2019 (as I have done) would be implying \u2018not and.\u2019 Thus either Coke or Fanta or both is an <a href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/conversational-principle\/\">entailment<\/a> and either Coke or Fanta but not both is an implicature (Grundy, 2000). If you listen to people converse, you will notice that they apply the notion of these scales without even realizing it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Non-Conversational_Implicature\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930150;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark894;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark892;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark891;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Non-Conversational Implicature<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Another term for describing \u2018non-conversational implicature\u2019 is \u2018conventional implicature\u2019 which according to Levinson 1983:127 is the \u2018non-truth conditional inferences that are not derived from superordinate pragmatic principles like the maxims, but are simply attached by convention to particular lexical items or expressions.\u2019 Let me illustrate with this advert by the First Bank of Zambia:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark895\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(iv)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">First Bank: <i>truly<\/i> the first.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The lexical item \u2018truly\u2019 is a conventional implicature because (i) the word \u2018truly\u2019 has a general meaning or <a href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/conversational-principle\/\">entailment<\/a>, i.e. <i>certainly, in actual fact, or factually<\/i> (ii) the word also conveys an implied meaning or implicature like <i>this may be contested, or this is not really true<\/i>. So the word \u2018truly\u2019 is conventional because it is closely associated with particular lexical items, i.e. \u2018the first.\u2019 While it is the first bank in Zambia, the second idea of \u2018first\u2019 is the implicature though conventional because we can\u2019t really say that it is \u2018truly\u2019 the first or not.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Explicature\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930151;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark901;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark899;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark898;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Explicature<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The term \u201cexplicature\u201d was first used by Sperber and Wilson in their book titled: <i>Relevance: Communication and Cognition,<\/i> 2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition, (1995). They argue that the single principle of relevance is enough to explain the process of utterance interpretation and understanding. They replaced the Gricean notion of implicature (a non-conventional meaning recovered by making some inferences) with a <i>two-stage<\/i> process in which the hearer recovers first an <i>explicature<\/i>which is an inference or series of inferences that <i>enrich<\/i> the under-determined form of the utterance to a full propositional form, and then an implicature &#8211; an inference which provides the hearer\/reader with the most relevant interpretation of the utterance. We can then say that explicature is an enrichment of an original utterance to a fully elaborated propositional form. Look at the following examples:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark902\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(i)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">First Bank: <i>truly<\/i> the first<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"bookmark903\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(ii)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Limca: 1<sup>st<\/sup> for taste,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The above adverts may be explicated as follows: (i) First Bank is the first indigenous Zambian Bank, and has proved to be the first in terms of its highest standard of customer service delivery (ii) Limca soft drink is first among all others for taste. Sperber and Wilson believe that Gricean implicature leaves the addressee with too many probabilities and therefore propose a Relevance theory that goes beyond these probabilities to enable addressees to be <i>sure<\/i> that they have recovered the most relevant of a all possible set of inferences.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">If an addressee is able to recover the explicature of a proposition, it becomes easier for him\/her to make the right inference. Sperber and Wilson also identified a \u201chigher level explicature\u201d which seeks to reveal the propositional attitude of the speaker to his\/her utterance. In other words, the speech acts description for the utterance. This means that even where an utterance is explicit enough (may be associated with an explicature) there is still a higher level explicature which the addressee needs to recover. Speech acts are therefore treated as attitude to propositions rather than as actions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">It is argued that explicature (i.e. inference\/series of inferences that enrich\/elaborate the under-determined form&#8230;to a full propositional form) are motivated by the indeterminacy of language . This indeterminacy is as a result of the economy of expression which characterizes natural language. A lot of expressions may represent or mean other things which require inferential process to be able to arrive at their full interpretation. Even where utterances with straightforward grammatical relations are made, there may still be some possible semantic relations that may be inferred with different uses of the expression. So utterances require some degree of <i>enriching<\/i> or <i>fleshing <\/i>for the most relevant inference to be made about their meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CONCLUSION\"><\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">CONCLUSION<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Grice\u2019s conversational implicature stems from the fact that people communicate meaning or assumptions explicitly (clearly, overtly or plainly) or implicitly (totally completely though often indirectly). What is said or entailed (what our words mean) is distinguished from what is implicated (what we mean by using some particular words). So <a href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/conversational-principle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">implicatures<\/a> are simply a matter of more being communicated than said. 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