The Relevance-Based Model of Context in Processing Puns

Agnieszka  Solska

doi:10.2478/v10015-012-0001-0

Authors

Agnieszka Solska University of Silesia, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0001-0

Author Biography

Agnieszka Solska, University of Silesia, Poland

Agnieszka Solska, assistant professor at the Institute of English of the University of Silesia, Poland, obtained her PhD in linguistics based on the dissertation The Pragmatics of Verbal Irony in English and her research interests include linguistic pragmatics, inferential models of communication especially Relevance Theory, nonliteral language, ambiguity, and language phenomena which are based on ambiguity, such as zeugma, garden path utterances and puns.

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