Saber Khakipour

[ 1 ] - Comedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature

Pragmatics moves away from the word level and sentence level study of language towards the study of language in real-world context and at discourse level whereby two or more participants take part in conversation. There are moments when the speaker explicitly says something but the listener may have other interpretations and inferences from their statements. The aim of this study was to demonst...