Indirectness, rhetoric and interpretative use: Communicative strategies in Browning's My Last Duchess

Language and Literature

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-223

  MacMahon, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Browning; Echolc use; Indirectness; Interpretative use; Irony; Literary communication; My Last Duchess, relevance theory; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010087811     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709600500305     Document Type: Article

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