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Publication details [#48531]

Bosco, Francesca M. and Monica Bucciarelli. 2008. Simple and complex deceits and ironies. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 583–607.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deceiving | irony | philosophy of language | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article states that the distinction between simple and complex communicative acts can include any sort of pragmatic phenomena, including deceit and irony and that complex acts are more difficult to understand than simple acts.