Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics #: Irony

Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics #: Irony
Joana Garmendia
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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.

Attitude Reports
Indirect Speech Acts
Irony
Meaning and Humour
Metaphor
Naming and Indexicality
Semantics for Counting and Measuring

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.
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ISBN-13: 9781107465916
Published: 17 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 178

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