The Conversational Implicature in al-Būṣīrī's al-Burda

Pragmatics, as a modern linguistic discipline, is founded on a set of procedural concepts identified by scholars, including the speech act, implicature, relevance theory, and conversational implicature. The latter, relatively recent in treatment, traces its origins to the lectures of Paul Grice. It proceeds from the idea that linguistic utterances often convey both explicit and implicit meanings, the interpretation of which is determined by the context in which they occur. Grice referred to this phenomenon as conversational implicature, the theory of communication, or the theory of entailment. From this standpoint, the present study is entitled Conversational Implicature in al-Būṣīrī’s alBurda.