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11: Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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The Importance of Sarcasm in Social Media

Sarcasm is often used a lot in sarcasm. It's interpret as, oh, hi, no, exactly. I know what you mean. This kind of rule of quantity, especially when it's misused for hijinks, which is to make what you say as informative as required,. But it doesn't need to be more informative than is required for this interaction. And that sounds, that sounds very confusing, but there are some really amazing examples.

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