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, I suggest you watch this video by the Lingspace with lots of examples.

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