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Publication details [#36834]

Saalmann, Dieter. 1990. Irony as a means of illuminating the German-German mind-set. Humor 3 (2) : 277–285.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

irony | political language | political system | prose

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0933-1719

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper focuses on P. Schneider's prose work, 'The Wall Jumper', which subjects the German-German barrier of the Berlin Wall to an ironic decentering, revealing the ironic nature of the political antagonists' relations.