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Concepts like implicature in pragmatics untiringly aim at explaining speaker’s capability to construe given utterances in given context and thereby to draw inferences. In general, what is conveyed by a given message may be far richer than what is said. The concepts in pragmatics such as implicature aim at bridging up such gap.Herbert Paul Grice coined the term ‘Implicature’ in the series of William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1969. These lectures were partly published in 1975, entitled as “Logic and Conversation.” Grice’s theories have never been published in their entirety. In fact, two portions of his lectures have been appeared in the form of articles and, as Taylor and Cameron (1987:82) state, monograph copies of his lectures have been circulated widely. Grice’s basic purpose behind devising the concept of implicature was to explain how speakers mean more than what they actually say in a conversational exchange. Thus, an implicature is something meant, implied, hinted or suggested which is different from ‘what is said.’ Nevertheless, it is distinct from concepts like entailment and logical implication. In fact, such inferences arise out of logical or semantic content of an utterance.