Isabella Reichl
List of John Benjamins publications for which Isabella Reichl plays a role.
Articles
2022 A delicate balance: Irony in the negotiation of refusals Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:2, pp. 288–314 | Article
This paper examines the factors that influence the outcome of exchanges containing refusals, focusing specifically on the role of irony. For this purpose, we analyse spontaneous conversations in English (SPICE-Ireland Corpus and Spoken BNC) within a discursive framework (Eelen 2001; Mills 2003;… read more
2018 Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts: New insights, new classification Pragmatics 28:2, pp. 253–270 | Article
Due to their largely non-routinized forms and their not being retrievable in computerised corpus searches, refusals have hitherto not been examined from a diachronic perspective. The present paper presents an inventory of refusal strategies in Early Modern English drama texts. Five comedies from… read more