creators_name: Akman, Varol
editors_name: Mey, Jacob L.
type: journalp
datestamp: 2000-09-08
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:23
metadata_visibility: show
title: Relating to Ken Kesey's Wise Man
ispublished: pub
subjects: ling-prag
full_text_status: public
keywords: Irony, Metaphysics, Stories, `What is said'
abstract: 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.
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Pragmatics
volume: 32
number: 4
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 485-489
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Akman, Varol  (2000) Relating to Ken Kesey's Wise Man.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/959/1/kesey.txt