Agnieszka Solska
List of John Benjamins publications for which Agnieszka Solska plays a role.
Article
2020 Chapter 9. Tropes of ill repute: Puns and (often thwarted) expectations of relevance Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics, Piskorska, Agnieszka (ed.), pp. 259–287 | Chapter
Puns, a form of figurative language exploiting ambiguity in its many guises, tend to be regarded as a trope of lesser value. The present article explores this tainted reputation of puns in the light of the relevance-theoretic model of utterance interpretation and attributes it to the fact that like… read more