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Publication details [#41919]
Giora, Rachel. 2000. Irony. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 1998 Installment. John Benjamins.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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John Benjamins
Annotation
This essay deals with irony in the sense of verbal irony or sarcasm. Little will be said on situational irony and nothing on cynicism. The classical 'pragmatic' view of irony has been challenged by relevance theory. Besides irony definitions, irony comprehension and functions are dealt with as well as irony processing in partial implementation.