Publications

Publication details [#14206]

Akman, Varol. 2000. Relating to Ken Kesey's wise man. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (4) : 485–489.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | irony

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is demonstrated how a sequence of weak implicatures alluding to Rorty's distinction between metaphysics and irony enables a parable to achieve its sublime effect.