... of “one kind of animal” After investigating some selected English and Vietnamese funny stories basing on implicature, the author can see that in order to understand funny stories and to explain ... lexical meaning is the individual meaning that each word has in the system of language In terms of component, lexical meaning is classified into denotative and connotative meaning Denotative meaning ... interpersonal meaning is firstly to establish and maintain social relations, and secondly to influence people‟s behavior and get things done, and thirdly to express the speaker‟s feelings, attitudes and...