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For a speaker to implicate something is for the speaker to mean something by saying something else.
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Without the brackets, furthermore, speakers violate Q when they implicate something rather than say it, and R when they say something rather than implicate it.
One common motive people have for implicating something is that it is often perceived to be more polite than asserting it (Pinker 2007).
"There may be something that comes out of the inquiry that always implicates something," he said.
What the sentence says, as used on that occasion, is true, as John sure is sober on the day in question, but uttering the sentence pragmatically implicates something false: Namely, that John is at least sometimes drunk.
Before he could be condemned, it was necessary to implicate him in something inherently diabolical.
Thus the literal French translation of "An N is an N" is used without implicature, the way English speakers use "No N is a non-N," while the Polish translation is used to implicate "There is something uniquely good about an N".
It is only natural to implicate Mr. Kaufman in his own story, if for no other reason that "Adaptation," another story about the effort to create something artificial that is still authentic, includes a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman as a character.
You need to implicate someone.
"But to implicate a maid.
Will Martoma try to implicate his former boss?
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