Explicature

Quick meaning: Explicature is a noun meaning (linguistics) Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.

Meaning

(linguistics) Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.

Example Sentences

In relevance theory terms, he must construct a hypothesis about the explicit content of Ally's utterance;that is, he mustrely upon both the words she uses in this utterance and an inferencing process to construct an explicature.

If the speaker was your flat-mate and you had a habit of borrowing her property without permission, she might be asking you if you'd 'borrowed' the book she owned (explicature) and the utterance might be taken as a demand for its return.

Word Forms

• explicatures

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include explicitation, explicitization, expounding, explicitisation, explication, exponence.

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