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Modeling Irony: A cognitive-pragmatic account
Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
[Figurative Thought and Language 12] 2022
► pp. 21–66

Chapter 2
Theoretical pre-requisites

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Perspectives on irony
    • 2.2.1Irony in rhetoric
    • 2.2.2Irony in literary theory
    • 2.2.3Irony in philosophy
    • 2.2.4Irony in inferential pragmatics
    • 2.2.5Irony in Cognitive Linguistics
    • 2.2.6Irony in psycholinguistics
    • 2.2.7Irony in artificial intelligence
    • 2.2.8Conclusions
  • 2.3In search of a unified framework
    • 2.3.1Previous integrated approaches to irony
    • 2.3.2The pretended agreement
    • 2.3.3The epistemic scenario
    • 2.3.4Revisiting previous perspectives
  • 2.4Irony types
    • 2.4.1Communicated and non-communicated irony
    • 2.4.2Sequenced and delayed non-communicated irony
  • 2.5Conclusions