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Publication details [#56240]
Desilla, Louisa. 2012. Implicatures in film: Construal and functions in Bridget Jones romantic comedies. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (1) : 30–53.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Using insights from relevance theory, film studies, and multimodality, this article provides a study of the construal and functions of the implicatures in the polysemiotic context of two romantic comedies: Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Implicatures especially appear as organic elements of the two studied films given their multifaceted involvement in the creation of humour and intimacy between the protagonists and their contribution to the plot per se.