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Publication details [#11766]
Colston, Herbert L. 1997. Salting a Wound or Sugaring a Pill: The Pragmatic Functions of Ironic Criticism. Discourse Processes 23 (1) : 25–45. 21 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Ablex Publishing Company
ISBN
0163-853X
Annotation
This article argues that ironic criticism is used to strengthen, and not to weaken condemnation. Implications for pragmatic and processing theories of verbal irony are discussed.