姜姓英语会话含义分析

2021年1月14日发(作者：汤斌)
合肥学院外语系学生过程考核报告
课程名称 英语语言学 得分：
班级：08英语（1）班 学号： 姓名：严婷婷
The Analysis of

Conversational Implicature
In the year 1957, a philosopher and logician, Paul Grice made a distinction between
what is said by a speaker of a verbal utterance and what is implicated. He specified two
kinds of implied meaning or implicature: conventional implicature and non-conventional
implicature. Of the types of non-conventional implicature, conversational implicature is
included, the introduction of which will be the focus of my paper.
Before talking about Grice’s theory, let’s see an anecdote. It is a famous headline in
newspaper. A director wants to know about the performance of an actress so he asks
another director who has given her a role in a famous movie with the question of “How do
you think of her performance?” And at the same time, the actress knows it is a big chance
for her if the previous director could recommend her to the latter director. So she expresses
her eager to take a role in new movie and requests the previous director could do her a
favor. However, in fact, she is not a good actress in performing such a role in new movie
whereas the director does not to refuse her please directly, so he says: “She is beautiful” as
the response. In fact, the claim that she is beautiful means she is not good at performing the
roles in movie. Here is what implicature functions
I. Implicature
First coined by Grice, the word “implicature” can be defined as what is intended by
the speaker; invisible meaning or implicit meaning; additional conveyed meaning that is
more than what words mean; what is communicated in context, not the meaning of words,
phrases or sentences.
II. Meaning and Intention
Since the intention of the speaker has to be involved in communication, an analysis of
meaning is necessarily done in terms of intention.