Conspicuous silences: implicature and fictionality in the Victorian novel
<p>This dissertation examines the central use of implicature within the Victorian novel. 'Implicature' denotes a communicative strategy in which a reader must infer the primary meaning of an utterance from that utterance's relationship to its context, rather than 'decode...
Main Author: | Schuldiner, R |
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Other Authors: | Small, H |
Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2012
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