%A Varol Akman
%J Journal of Pragmatics
%T Relating to Ken Kesey's Wise Man
%X We take a parable (told by Ken Kesey) and exhibit how it
achieves its sublime effect through a sequence of weak implicatures. Interestingly, the implicatures turn out to allude to Richard Rorty's renowned distinction between metaphysicians and ironists.
%N 4
%K Irony, Metaphysics, Stories, `What is said'
%P 485-489
%E Jacob L. Mey
%V 32
%D 2000
%I Elsevier
%L cogprints959

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