A frame-based approach to implicature in the analysis of free-trade discourse

This thesis concerns the analysis of implicature in discourse, with the aim of furthering the investigation of the role of implicature in the discursive formation of world views. Two small corpora of AU and EU speeches on the topic of free-trade agreements are used to exemplify the theory and method...

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Main Author: Sarazin, Paul
Other Authors: Chilton, Paul
Published: Lancaster University 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730633