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Publication details [#14224]

Attardo, Salvatore. 2000. Irony as relevant inappropriateness. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (6) : 793–826.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | cooperative principle | irony | processing | relevance

Person as a subject

Brown, P. | Glucksberg | Grice, P.H. | Haverkate

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In view of previous theories of irony, this article promotes a theory which claims that verbal irony is both inappropriate and relevant to its context. Justifications for this theory of irony are given.