CONVERSATIONA
L IMPLICATURE
Names:
Daniel Chimbolema
Angela Imbaquingo
Fabian Rodriguez
Saul Salazar
CONVESATIONAL IMPLICACATURE
▪ MAIN CONCEPTS
▪ EXAMPLES
▪ EXAMPLES and EXPLANATION
▪ CONCLUSION
▪ ACTIVITY
COVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE
▪ Conversational implicature is the assumption suggested by the
speaker and inferred by the hearer or addressee in an exchange
situation
SPEAKER HEARERCOOPERATION
Examples
Charlene: I hope you brought the bread and the cheese.
Dexter: Ah, I brought the bread.
Sally: What’s the weather going to be like today?
Harold: You should bring your umbrella.
SPEAKERS MEANING IMPLICATURE
LISTENERS RECOGNIZE INFERENCE
The inferences selected are
those which will preserve the
assumption of cooperation.
CONCLUSION
Conversational
Implicatures
Inference
More is conveyed
than it’s said
Charlene: b & c
Dexter: b (+> NOT c)
THANK YOU GUYS
Have a great day

Conversational implicature