Paul Simpson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Simpson plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1569-3112
Titles
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour
Paul Simpson
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 2] 2003. xiv, 242 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2019 Chapter 10. “Americans don’t do Irony”: Cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 171–192 | Chapter
This chapter probes the common (and perhaps controversial)
perception of many in the UK and Ireland that people from North America
“don’t do” irony. Stimulated by the type of discussion found in Nash’s The Language of
Humour (1985), the author interrogates this folk
belief… read more
2019 Introduction Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2011 “That’s not ironic, that’s just stupid”: Towards an eclectic account of the discourse of irony The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 33–50 | Article
This article draws on a range of models from language studies, particularly from linguistic pragmatics, in order to elucidate patterns in the production and reception of irony in its social and cultural context. An expanded view of the concept of irony, it is suggested, allows for better modelling… read more