Joana Garmendia | CSLI (Stanford University) and ILCLI (University of the Basque Country)
Irony is acknowledged to be usually critical: the ironic speaker tends to exhibit an apparent positive attitude in order to communicate a negative valuation. The reverse is considered to be also possible though: the ironic speaker can praise by apparent blaming, although it seldom happens. This unbalance between the two sorts of ironic examples is the so-called asymmetry issue of irony. Here I shall deny the possibility of being ironic without criticizing — hence the asymmetry issue is an illusion. By claiming that irony is always critical I suggest an even stronger claim: criticism is what distinguishes irony from the similar phenomenon of metaphor.
2017. The Irony of Irony: Irony Based on Truthfulness. Corpus Pragmatics 1:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Dynel, Marta
2017. Academics vs. American scriptwriters vs. academics: A battle over the etic and emic “sarcasm” and “irony” labels. Language & Communication 55 ► pp. 69 ff.
2020. Humorous and ironic readers' comments to a politician's post on Facebook: The case of Miri Regev. Journal of Pragmatics 164 ► pp. 40 ff.
Hirsch, Galia
2022. Whose side are we on?. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)► pp. 149 ff.
Hirsch, Galia & Shoshana Blum-Kulka
2014. Identifying irony in news interviews. Journal of Pragmatics 70 ► pp. 31 ff.
Kapogianni, Eleni
2016. The ironic operation: Revisiting the components of ironic meaning. Journal of Pragmatics 91 ► pp. 16 ff.
Kapogianni, Eleni
2019. Book review. Journal of Pragmatics 144 ► pp. 67 ff.
Lehmann, Claudia
2021. About as boring as flossing sharks: Cognitive accounts of irony and the family of approximate comparison constructions in American English. Cognitive Linguistics 32:1 ► pp. 133 ff.
2019. Shy children's understanding of irony: Better comprehension does not always mean better socioemotional functioning. Infant and Child Development 28:3
Milanowicz, Anna
2019. A Short Etude on Irony in Storytelling. Psychology of Language and Communication 23:1 ► pp. 14 ff.
Milanowicz, Anna, Adam Tarnowski & Barbara Bokus
2017. When Sugar-Coated Words Taste Dry: The Relationship between Gender, Anxiety, and Response to Irony. Frontiers in Psychology 8
2021. Translating irony. Translation strategies and techniques used by Polish translators of Pride and Prejudice. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies :33(2) ► pp. 86 ff.
2018. Bibliography. In The Psychology of Humor, ► pp. 373 ff.
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2023. Irony, Affect, and Related Figures. In The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought, ► pp. 235 ff.
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