Conversational Maxims

MASTER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

MASTER DISSERTATION

THE ROLE OF CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS,
IMPLICATURE AND PRESUPPOSITION IN THE
CREATION OF HUMOUR: AN ANALYSIS OF WOODY
ALLEN’S ANYTHING ELSE

Department of English Philology I, UCM
STUDENT: Ramiro Nieto Álvaro
TUTOR: Dr. Marta Begoña Carretero Lapeyre
Septiembre de 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................4
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Framework and outline................................................................................................5
1.2. Research hypothesis and aim of the study..................................................................6
1.3. Overview of the method............................................................................................. 7
1.4. Description of the data................................................................................................8
1.4.1. Plot and characters........................................................................................ 9
1.4.2. Film poster analysis......................................................................................... 10
1.5. Context and “double level” …...... ………………………………………………...15
2. Humour in Woody Allen’s Anything Else.............................................................. 17
2.1 What is humour?........................................................................................................17
2.1.1. The laughter..................................................................................................... 20
2.2. Humour vs. Comedy.................................................................................................22
2.3. Rhetorical

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