Comparison between the principle of relevance and conversational implicature;

The inference and application of the theory of conversational implicature in verbal communication;

A Pragmatic Study of Conversational Implicature in International Business Negotiation;

In terms of intentionality theory, utterance interpretation and inference of implicatives are seen as a kind of interpretation of the speaker s intentions.

Grice s conversational implicature theory is the basis of pragmatic theories,whereas relevance theory has more explanatory advantages than the conversational implicature theory.