牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - implicature collapse

implicature
im·pli·ca·ture / 5implikEtFE(r) / noun (technical 术语)
1. [U] the act of suggesting that you feel or think sth is true, without saying so directly
   含蓄行为；含蓄表达
2. [C] something that you can understand from what is said, but which is not stated directly
   含意；言外之意:
   An implicature of 'Some of my friends came' is 'Some of my friends did not come'.
   "我的一些朋友来了"这句话的言外之意是"我的一些朋友没有来"。

Oxford Dictionary of English - implicature collapse

implicature

Pronunciation: /ˈɪmplɪˌkətʃə/ /ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪtʃə/

noun

[mass noun]
1The action of implying a meaning beyond the literal sense of what is explicitly stated, for example saying the frame is nice and implying I don’t like the picture in it.
Example sentences
  • In saying ‘Some dogs are mammals,’ the speaker conveys by implicature that not all dogs are mammals.
  • But on the other hand, what is said can be notoriously elusive - especially in just those cases that the theory of conversational implicature was supposed to illuminate.
  • The so-called discourse implicature refers to the intention of interlocutors inferred in verbal expressions, textual versions or non-verbal behavior that are rooted on specific cultural awareness.
1.1 [count noun] An implied meaning.
Example sentences
  • This work is also relevant to the treatment of scalar implicatures in the reasoning literature.
  • I'd say that conversational implicatures should be those that are generated in roughly Gricean fashion, and that not all of these are cancelable.
  • Overall, these findings indicate that children do not treat all scalar terms alike and, more importantly, that children's ability to derive scalar implicatures is affected by their awareness of the goal of the task.

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词源记忆 - implicature collapse

implicature 含蓄，言外之意
来自implicate, 卷入。引申词义含蓄，言外之意。