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Pragmatics and Literature
Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 35] 2019
► pp. 73–91

Chapter 4
What the /fʌk/? An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a scene from The Wire

Article outline
  • 4.1Introduction
  • 4.2Implicated meaning
  • 4.3Combining pragmatic and acoustic analytical methods
    • 4.3.1Pragmatics
    • 4.3.2Acoustics
    • 4.3.3Statistics
  • 4.4Results
    • 4.4.1Pragmatics
    • 4.4.2Acoustics
      • 4.4.2.1Formants
      • 4.4.2.2Duration
    • 4.4.3Statistics
  • 4.5Summary
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 5 December 2019
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