31.3349, Books: Irony: Garmendia

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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:00:58
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Irony: Garmendia

 


Title: Irony 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/irony?format=PB 


Author: Joana Garmendia

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107465916 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107465916 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107465916 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language.
This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key
work carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics,
pragmatics, philosophy and literary studies, and from a variety of theoretical
perspectives including Grice's approach, Sperber and Wilson's echoic account,
and Clark and Gerrig's pretense theory. It looks at a number of uses of irony
and explores how irony can be misunderstood cross-culturally, before delving
into the key debates on the pragmatics of irony: is irony always negative? Why
do speakers communicate via irony, and which strategies do they usually
employ? How are irony and sarcasm different? Is irony always funny? To answer
these questions, basic pragmatic notions are introduced and explained. It
includes multiple examples and activities to enable the reader to apply the
theoretical frameworks to actual everyday instances of irony.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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