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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter
Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 30] 2018
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Part ITheoretical and empirical revisiting of irony (and banter)
Chapter 1Introduction: The intricacies of irony and banter 3
Chapter 2Irony in a theory of textual meaning 23
Chapter 3Deconstructing the myth of positively evaluative irony 41
Chapter 4Verbal irony, politeness… and three ironic types 59
Chapter 5Irony and semantic prosody revisited 81
Part IIIrony and banter from 17th and 19th century literature to contemporary discourse
Chapter 6Simulating ignorance: Irony and banter on Congreve’s stage 103
Chapter 7The face-value of place-work in William Makepeace Thackeray’s handling of irony 121
Chapter 8The point of banter in the television show Pointless 141
Chapter 9Irony as counter positioning: Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis 165
Chapter 10The Rolling Stones promoting Monty Python: The power of irony and banter 195
Notes on contributors 215
Index 218


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