ENTAILMENTS,PRESUPPOSITIONS AN IMPLICATURES : A SEMANTICO-PRAGMATIC STUDY

It is common knowledge for us that in any kind of verbal interaction speakers convey most of the communicational content by way of implication rather than by making overt statements. in fact, it is in the nature of communication itself that much of the total signification of utterances is communicated in the form of implicit meaning. one cannot make one's utterances entirely explicit. we can imagine the dullness and drabness such explicitness would result in. implicitness is thus an essential feature of communication. it is this feature that makes communication both an interesting and a challenging enterprise