María Isabel Kalbermatten
List of John Benjamins publications for which María Isabel Kalbermatten plays a role.
Articles
The role of verbal irony in conflict talk among relatives and friends in an Argentinian community Closeness and conflict: The discourse of domestic discord across English and Spanish-speaking communities, Boxer, Diana and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 299–319 | Article
2018 This article shows the role of verbal irony in conflict talk among relatives and friends. Excerpts from ten naturally occurring multiparty conversations among relatives and friends were analyzed. The analysis shows that the introduction of verbal irony in the conversation by one of the… read more
4. Humor in verbal irony Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts, Koike, Dale and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Chapter
2010 This chapter aims to show that irony in conversation may have a humorous effect as a result of the perception of the incompatibility or incongruity between two simultaneous ‘readings’ or interpretations, following current linguistic theories of verbal humor that submit that a humorous text is… read more