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Publication details [#4302]

Hancher, Michael. 1980. How to play games with words: Speech act jokes. Journal of Literary Semantics 9 (1) : 20–27.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
appropriateness | conversational maxim | illocution | joking | language play | reference
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JLSE/html

Annotation

H. calls attention to ways of playing with language which do not involve the level of sense and reference, but the felicity conditions on illocutionary acts and conversational maxims.