Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature

作     者：QU Li-juan 

作者机构：Department of Foreign Languages Basic Medical Science College Harbin Medical University Harbin 150081 China 

出 版 物：《Sino-US English Teaching》 (中美英语教学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第4卷第7期

页      面：63-66页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 0401[教育学-教育学] 04[教育学] 05[文学] 040102[教育学-课程与教学论] 

主　　题：conversational implicature inference co-operative maxims figure of speech 

摘      要：Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered. Using this theory, we can infer the speaker＇s real attention, appreciate figure of speech in literary work, and improve our communicative competence.