Arkas: a pragmatic approach to a Greek comic series
Journal: Kathedra of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Year: 2020

The paper analyzes certain episodes taken from Arkas comic series: «Με τον κηδεμόνα σου» (Me ton kidemona sou) and «Σκέπτομαι κι ας μην υπάρχω» (Skeptome ki as min iparxo) in terms of Pragmatics. It explores the way language is used to create humor and jokes in one of the most famous Greek comic series. Sense relations, lexical relations and sentence relations are tracked down. In particular, an attempt to test the applicability of Grice’s conversational Maxims, implicatures-explicatures, as wel