Explicature
//ɛkˈsplɪkətʃə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit. countable, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From explicate + -ure, after implicature.
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