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Publication details [#3763]

Giuliani, Maria Vittoria and Franca Orletti. 1977. Aspetti dell'ironia linguistica. In Mosconi, Giuseppe and Valentina D'Urso, eds. Psicologia e retorica. Il Mulino. pp. 39–46.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

Italian

Keywords

audience | irony

Annotation

It is argued that in linguistic irony the speaker or author divides his audience into interpreters (who are supposed to understand the conveyed meaning) and targets or victims (who are supposed to understand literal meaning only), in order to give some negative evaluation of the latter.