Implicatures in film: Construal and functions in Bridget Jones romantic comedies

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-53

  Desilla, Louisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Film communication; Implicature; Multimodality; Polysemiosis; Relevance theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855442161     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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