Sunday 2 April 2017

MEANING BEYOND SENTENCES: IMPLICATURES, ENTAILMENT AND PRESUPPOSITIONS

These  three concepts play a fundamental role in the negotiation of meaning: let's take a sentence  "Are you married?" the implied meaning would be totally different in different situations! Can you think of any? And the presuppositions would be totally different too; let alone the consequences!
Entail is defined as   "to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence"
If you are interested in Linguistics and the secrets of meaning, I suggest you  watch this video by the Lingspace with lots of examples.