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Publication details [#1794]

Brown, Robert L. 1980. The pragmatics of verbal irony. In Shuy, Roger W. and Anna Shnukal, eds. Language use and the uses of language. Georgetown University Press. pp. 111–127.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

irony | speech act theory

Person as a subject

Grice, P.H. | Searle, J.R.

Annotation

An analysis of verbal irony within the framework of intentional pragmatics as proposed in Searle's speech act theory and Grice's conversational logic.