Abstract:
Abstract—This study explores implicature as a pragmatic inference in some journalist texts. Content analysis
has proved the existence of the inference in all types of news reporting. The study also reveals that implicature
as a vital pragmatic element in the process of communication which bridges the gap between what is literally
said and what is intentionally meant. Analysis of implicature has proved its importance to discourse analysis
theories and the new English syllabi since it caters for what is said and what is understood in the process of
communication. Sentence linguistics which has been used in school-classes since 1850 has been challenged by
this pragmatic inference. That is, traditional grammar concentrated mainly on the structures of sentences and
their internal systems. Implicature, however, employs the whole situation and it uses all the circumstances
surrounding the utterance in order to really conceive the intended meaning of the producer of that utterance.
Implicature as well plays a vital role in media language by bridging the gap between the different cultures.
The paper shows this inference as a tool of cultural transfer and how far it can be harnessed as interdisciplinary
system to illustrate linguistic pragmatic theory as well as explaining how media language works.
Description:
Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 35-43, January 2010
