implicature
The information that is strongly suggested in an utterance but that is not necessarily entailed. For example, "the man took out his books and sat down" implies that the man tooks and his and then sat down, but the utterance is not necessarily false if he did not.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Language
- Category: Linguistics
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