International Conference: “Things unsaid...” AFI 2014
Studies in language science and communication have shown that in any form of discourse there may be a gap between what is said and what is meant. It is the contents actually intended to be communicated – the meaning we can call implicit, unexpressed, figurative, or indirect – which has to be taken into account to get the speaker’s actual meaning. Fields of study such as pragmatics and rhetoric make it possible to define the various existing implicit forms and, above all, unveil the various strategies used in the production and understanding of this type of form.