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Publication details [#2011]

Cassirer, Peter. 1983. Pragmatic stylistics: Conversational postulates as means to a method for interpretative stylistics. In Borbé, Tasso, ed. Semiotics unfolding: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, July 1979. Mouton. pp. 1091–1094.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational maxim | conversational postulate | deviation | hyperbole | irony | litotes | stylistics
Person as a subject
Grice, P.H.

Annotation

C. argues that Grice's maxims of conversation provide rhetoric with the backbone it needed: it explains how stylistic devices (such as hyperbole, litotes, irony) deviate from a 'normal' way of expressing oneself.