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explicatures

explicatures is the plural of explicature.

Meaning of explicature

Noun

explicature (countable and uncountable, plural explicatures)

  1. Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.
    • In relevance theory terms, he must construct a hypothesis about the explicit content of Ally's utterance;that is, he mustrely upon both the words she uses in this utterance and an inferencing process to construct an explicature.2012, Jodie Clark, Language, Sex and Social Structure

Questions about explicatures

What is explicatures the plural of?
Explicatures is the plural of explicature.

Words near explicatures in the dictionary

  1. explicator
  2. explicators
  3. explicatory
  4. explicatum
  5. explicature
  6. explicatures
  7. explicit
  8. explicit function
  9. explicit functions
  10. explicit modeling
  11. explicitally

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