1. Introduction
The word implicature is primarily used as a shorthand for conversational implicature, which was first coined by Grice (1989 [1967]) to capture the phenomenon that what is meant by the speaker can be more than what is said. The following exchange between two female neighbors is a case in point.
| A: | 他家姑娘有了，還沒結婚呢！ |
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| Tā jiā gūniang yǒu le, hái … |