“The big red giant will explode”: Géza Hofi’s political implicatures from the happiest barracks in the socialist camp

By taking a pragma-rhetorical approach, this article characterises the genre of Géza Hofi’s political humour, developed during the communist Kádár era in Hungary, and investigates implicature as his main rhetorical device for conveying politically sensitive messages to the audience. Three of his mos...

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Main Author: Attila L. Nemesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2014-07-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/55