Agnieszka Solska

List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnieszka Solska is involved.

Article

Solska, Agnieszka 2020 Chapter 9. Tropes of ill repute: Puns and (often thwarted) expectations of relevance Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics, Piskorska, Agnieszka (ed.), pp. 259–287 | Chapter

Puns, a form of figurative language exploiting ambiguity in its many guises, tend to be regarded as a trope of lesser value. The present article explores this tainted reputation of puns in the light of the relevance-theoretic model of utterance interpretation and attributes it to the fact that… read more