An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communication.
An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communication.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joana Garmendia is an assistant professor at the Department of Basque Language and Communication of the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. She is the assistant secretary of the journal GOGOA -the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLI) journal, which is devoted to the study of language, knowledge, communication, and action -, and a member of the research group Language, Action, and Thought at the ILCLI.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Irony as opposition 3. Irony as echo 4. Irony as pretense 5. Attitude expression in irony 6. Clues of irony 7. Sarcasm and humour.
