This article explores the nature and general characteristics of conventional implicature, a very controversial and tricky notion of meaning left behind by Grice.

• 摘要规约含义是格赖斯遗留下来的一个十分棘手的关于自然语言意义的哲学问题。长期以来，人们很少关注这一问题，有限的讨论也几乎是一片质疑和批判之声。