Eleni Kapogianni
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eleni Kapogianni 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
2016 The ironist’s intentions: Communicative priority and manifestness New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 150–173 | Article
This paper examines the ironic speaker’s intentions, drawing distinctions on the basis of two criteria: communicative priority (primary — secondary communicative intentions) and manifestness (overt — subtle — mixed — covert). It is argued that these provide useful insights into the widely discussed… read more
2011 Irony via “surrealism” The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 51–68 | Article
The aim of this paper is to support the general hypothesis that irony is a non-unified phenomenon comprising different devices with different semantic/pragmatic/cognitive characteristics. The arguments presented here stand on the boundary between semantics, cognitivism and pragmatics, focusing on… read more