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Benjamin A. Jones

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Applied linguistics lecturer at Swansea University. Research interests: Welsh varieties of English | stylistic dialect representation in fictive media.

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In this morning's discourse analysis seminar I used examples from Buffy to talk about pragmatics and the flouting and violating of Grice's Maxims.

The sheer genius of Buffy has never really left me.

Anyway, to quote Cordy: "Excuse me, I have to call everyone I have ever met, right now." ๐Ÿง›

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