THE PORTUGUESE CONSTRUCTION “EU NÃO ATENDO BÊBADO”
AMBIGUITY, EFFICIENCY AND GRAMMAR
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Ambiguity, Efficiency, Strategy, Functional Discourse GrammarAbstract
The article presents an analysis, within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar, of a joke and its textual environment, showing how it reveals the roles of ambiguity, efficiency and grammatical strategies in human interaction.
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