Comedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Saber Khakipour ¹

1 - Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-05-15 Accepted : 2017-07-17 Published : 2017-08-01

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