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Fitzmaurice, Suzan M. 2002. "Phletoras of witty verbiage" and "heathen Greek": Ways of reading meaning in English comic drama. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3 (1) : 31–60.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
comedy | discourse analysis | implicature | pragmatics | reader
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
ISBN
1566-5852
Journal DOI
10.1075/jhp

Annotation

This paper provides a pragmatic account of British comic drama reading employing the techniques of conversational implicature.