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Publication details [#59154]
Arseneault, Madeleine. 2014. An Implicature Account of Idioms. International Review of Pragmatics 6 (1) : 59–77. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
After exploring strong and weak points of Andy Egan’s Pretence view, this paper states that idioms transmit their idiomatic sense through conversational implicature.