... indirect illocutions of utterances.” [Hurford and Heasley, 1 984 : 280 ] 4.2.4 Grice’ theory of conversational implicature Grice [1975, 19 78] 52 has proposed a way of analysing conversational implicature ... to your hearer as you can” [Hurford and Heasley, 1 984 : 281 ] and which “controls the way in which a conversation may proceed” [Palmer, 1 981 : 173], and its maxims, which are “guidelines for ... expression at least, as in (8) b; the speaker can deny the implicature by either adding further information, often following the expression in fact, as in (8) c or reinforcing the implicature...