36.791, Confs: The Figure of Irony Revisited (Greece)

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Date: 05-Mar-2025
From: Angeliki Athanasiadou [angath at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: The Figure of Irony Revisited


The Figure of Irony Revisited

Date: 04-Oct-2025 - 05-Oct-2025
Location: Online, Greece
Contact: Angeliki Athanasiadou
Contact Email: angath at enl.auth.gr

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics;
Semantics

Following previous successful theme sessions in ICLC 13 and ICLC 14,
and publications of selected papers in Irony in Language Use and
Communication 2017 (A. Athanasiadou and H. Colston (Eds.), J.
Benjamins FTL1, and The Diversity of Irony 2020 (A. Athanasiadou and
H. Colston (Eds.), CLR 65 Mouton de Gruyter, the figure of irony is
revisited in its diversity as a fundamental and multifaceted
mechanism.
Researchers working on irony might investigate its multifaceted
character in a variety of languages, as well as on topics including,
though not limited to, those below:
 • production and interpretation of irony;
 • verbal and/or situational irony;
 • types of irony: Socratic irony, dramatic irony, irony of fate, each
one influencing its study in linguistics and psycholinguistics; also
irony and pragmatic functions in various sociocultural contexts, like
bitter irony, polite irony(?), solidarity irony,…;
 • approaches to verbal irony (pretense, echoic accounts, relevant
inappropriateness, allusional pretense, bicoherence, contrast, …);
 • irony and constructions: are there entities usually connected to
irony? are there constructions favored in irony production and/or in
response to irony?
 • irony and humor; irony and parody; irony and sarcasm: what is the
distinctive line between them?
 • verbal irony may combine with metaphor, metonymy, simile,
hyperbole, understatement, rhetorical questions and many others, for a
variety of practices such as political/extremist/racist, ….  speech;
 • irony and multimodality in advertising, political cartoons, comics,
animation, newspapers, TV commercials, co-speech or stand-alone
gesture, … or in any social, cultural, political or ideological
background;
 • irony clustering in conversations and/or discourses;
 • irony framing;
 • irony priming.
Proposals for abstracts (not more than 300 words) are encouraged both
descriptive and/or theoretical, on the figure of irony that could
account for its broader picture in conceptualization, expression and
interpretation.
Presentations will be no longer than 15 min.
There is no registration fee.
Let me know if you would be interested in participating and, if so,
please send me your abstract by August 31st. Then you will be informed
on the details of the online platform we will be using.
Should you have any further inquiries do not hesitate to contact me
(angath at enl.auth.gr)



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