The Relevance-Based Model of Context in Processing Puns

• Authors: Agnieszka Solska
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 387-404

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-01-29

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Solska

• University of Silesia, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-012-0001-0