Violations of Grice’s conversational conventions as humour in Irish and American television comedies
Scripts of two popular television shows, the American show ‘The Simpsons’ and the Irish show ‘Father Ted,’ were assessed in the context of Grice’s (1975) conventions of conversational coherence. Episodes with similar subject matter were compared. Grice’s conventions are appropriate parameters for c...
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| Language: | English |
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The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/507 |