On Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicature and Pragmatic Inference

Conversational implicature has been one of the hot topics since it was first proposed.According to Grice,people will try to say things which are true,relevant,as well as informative enough,and in a clear manner,which is called cooperative principle(CP).Gricean theory of conversational implicature and CP starts the inference from the perspective of pragmatics.The important point made by Grice regarding the theory of implicature is the distinction between what is said and what is implicated.If there are obvious signs that one,or more,of the maxims is not observed,that is violation of the maxims,conversational implicature is generated.How to use Gricean theory to interprete the speaker's communicative intention,deduce the conversational implicature,and thus make the communication go on more smoothly is the core study in the field of pragmatics.