What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family

Advancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the viewer’s recovery of additional cognitive eff...

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Main Author: Magdalena Wieczorek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin 2024-12-01
Series:LingBaW
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/18021
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