Unit 26 Study Guide and Exercises
Directions After you have read Unit 26 you should be able to tackle the
following questions to test your understanding of the main ideas
raised in the unit.
1 You should understand these terms and concepts from this unit:
inference
entailment (logical)
implicature (conversational)
cancellation of implicatures
co-operative principle (be as helpful as possible)
maxim of relevance
maxim of informativeness
maxim of clarity (includes brevity, avoidance of ambiguity/obscurity)
2 What do the notions entailment and implicature have in common? How
do they di
ffer? What does it mean to say that implicatures are non-truth-
conditional inferences?
3 An implicature can result through the
