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Publication details [#18453]

Curcó, Carmen. 2000. Irony: Negation, echo and metarepresentation. Elsevier.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

On the nature of verbal irony: is it a subtype of echoic use of language (cf. Sperber and Wilson), or a form of indirect negation (cf. Giora)? Both approaches are evaluated with a focus on the cognitive abilities that the processing of verbal irony requires. Sperber and Wilson's approach is favored.