I think in some places in your thinking here you’re equivocating between “implication” and “insinuation”. I think almost all the things that people call “implication” that actually causes trouble is “insinuation”, with insinuation being implications you make that you will resist clarifying if clarification is requested. Implication is the part of your message that you’ve offloaded to supposed shared context, shared context which someone who could still speak your language may or may not have. Even if you are speaking in a way that relies heavily on implicature, if you are being straightforward, if you come to suspect that someone doesn’t have the context to receive your implicature, you would try and clarify. It might not be clear to you what part of your implication wasn’t received, but it would be obviously worthwhile to try and bridge the gap.
This post has a short anecdote about the types of conflicts that seem to require insinuation (i.e. disavowed implication) as part of their logic.
I think in some places in your thinking here you’re equivocating between “implication” and “insinuation”. I think almost all the things that people call “implication” that actually causes trouble is “insinuation”, with insinuation being implications you make that you will resist clarifying if clarification is requested. Implication is the part of your message that you’ve offloaded to supposed shared context, shared context which someone who could still speak your language may or may not have. Even if you are speaking in a way that relies heavily on implicature, if you are being straightforward, if you come to suspect that someone doesn’t have the context to receive your implicature, you would try and clarify. It might not be clear to you what part of your implication wasn’t received, but it would be obviously worthwhile to try and bridge the gap.
This post has a short anecdote about the types of conflicts that seem to require insinuation (i.e. disavowed implication) as part of their logic.