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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 14 2022 | None
Implicature In Internet Memes: A Cyberpragmatic Approach
Huda Qasim Hamza and Lina Laith Yunus
Pages: 6225-6234
Abstract
The study of internet memes has recently attracted the interest of scholars from various disciplines. This interest comes from the fact that language is one of how humans can communicate with one another; through language, a person can offer feelings, ideas, and others, whether written or oral. This research paper analyzes internet memes following Grice’s theory of implicature ( 1975 ). This paper aims to investigate the implied meaning of memes that represent captions whin the image. It claimed that memes are not easily comprehended or understood by everyone.The analysis shows that each meme category includes implicature influenced by two types of contexts. Moreover, the two contexts are connected, especially physical context, because an image represents each meme, and associating this context with another makes the suggested meaning easier to deduce.
Keywords
Internet Memes, Implicature, Context
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