Pragmatic obligatoriness revisited
... description of its referent. In fictional texts, violation of this principle may produce specific artistic effects. The article also differentiates between the telling of jokes and related speech genres. It argues that the introduction of a forthcoming canned joke into discourse is necessary, and it examines certain clichés commonly used to preface such jokes—clichés that are never employed to introduce spontaneous jokes.
pragmatic obligatoriness, discourse word, proper name, canned joke
Shmelev A....
