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Publication details [#25482]

Attardo, Salvatore. 1993. Violation of conversational maxims and cooperation: the case of jokes. Journal of Pragmatics 19 (6) : 537–558.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication breakdown | conversational maxim | cooperation | information processing | joke

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article demonstrates how non-cooperative text types such as jokes manage to convey information through their presuppositional basis via metamessages and violation suppression and how this non-cooperative nature serves other communicative purposes.