Infringing conversational maxims : The case of humorous road signs

Authors

SUČKOVÁ Magda

Year of publication 2015
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The aim of the paper is to argue that one of the major sources of humour in funny road signs is the unintentional non-observance of Grice's (1975) Conversational Maxims in the given context of the particular signs.
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