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Publication details [#25526]

Barbe, Katherina. 1993. "isn´t it ironic that ... ": Explicit irony markers. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (6) : 579–590.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

irony | marker of conversational organization | semantic change

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Dealing with features, use and interpretation of implicit and explicit irony, this paper reveals an additional type of explicit irony, namely a semantic expansion including the feature of coincidence.