Contextualising Joint Fictionalisation: Coherent Keying in Conversational Humour

Kotthoff, Helga

doi:10.1075/pbns.63.10kot

In:Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it
Edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 63] 1999
► pp. 125–152

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Coherent Keying in Conversational Humour

Contextualising Joint Fictionalisation

Helga Kotthoff

Published online: 15 June 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.63.10kot

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