For M 10/15, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.

1.  Sadock, Jerrold M. 1978. On testing for conversational implicature. In Peter Cole (ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 9: Pragmatics, 281-297. New York: Academic Press.

2.  Carston, Robyn. 1988. Implicature, explicature, and truth-theoretic semantics. In Ruth M. Kempson (ed.), Mental Representations: The Interface Between Language and Reality, 155-181. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(Note:  You should skip section 5 of the Carston paper.)