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/ɛkˈsplɪkətʃə/ · noun
(linguistics) Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit..
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.
Use explicature when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Explicature means (linguistics) Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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