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Tytuł: | The relevance-based model of context in processing puns |
Autor: | Solska, Agnieszka |
Słowa kluczowe: | irony; ironic utterances |
Data wydania: | 2012 |
Źródło: | Research in Language, Vol. 10, no. 4, (2012), s. 387-404 |
Abstrakt: | While the essential role context plays in the understanding of expressions and utterances
has never been questioned, the way it is perceived has evolved from a static factor
established prior to the process of utterance interpretation, indeed a prerequisite for
processing information, to a dynamic entity which emerges in this process. The latter
view is espoused by relevance theorists, who define context as “the set of premises used
in interpreting an utterance” (Sperber and Wilson 1986/95: 15) and treat it as a mental
construct undergoing diverse modifications as the comprehender of an utterance
processes and interprets incoming verbal information and other communicative signals
supplied by the communicator.
The aim of this paper is to consider the usefulness of this model of context for
analyzing the derivation of meaning in puns, i.e. utterances in which, instead of its usual
function of allowing the comprehender to resolve ambiguities ubiquitous in language
and communication, the context plays a different role of leading him to entertain, and
often to accept two diverse readings[…] |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/9197 |
DOI: | 10.2478/v10015-012-0001-0 |
ISSN: | 1731-7533 |
Pojawia się w kolekcji: | Artykuły (W.Hum.)
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