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Publication details [#28408]

Dews, Shelly, Joan Kaplan and Ellen Winner. 1995. Why not say it directly? The social functions of irony. Discourse Processes 19 (3) : 347–367.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

addressee | function | irony | speaker

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study illustrates that irony can serve different social functions, such as being funny, softening criticism, showing control and avoiding damage of the speaker-addressee relationship.