Abstract
Two of the original TCFs from critical stylistics that most obviously border on the pragmatic are Implying and Assuming. They seemed to fit well with the concept of textual meaningthat I was develo**, though clearly some of the less text-based aspects of implicature make identification from text alone rather difficult. The solution was to limit the TCFs to those aspects of implying and assuming that were textual in nature. This was not difficult with presupposition, which can be traced to features of the text, and cannot be cancelled by negation, but was less easy to achieve for implying.
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Exceptions apply to performance poetry which has been excluded from this study as explained earlier. Though even in these cases, the poetry has a de-contextual origin.
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An example story would be: The Queen met Uncle Michael in the chip shop. She said to him “What’s the time?” He said to her “Not likely old girl!” The consequence was that they cycled off into the sunset. The world thought it was a happy ending.
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Jeffries, L. (2022). Alluding: Implying and Assuming in Poems. In: The Language of Contemporary Poetry. Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09749-2_10
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