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Publication details [#42548]

Dedaic, Mirjana N. 2005. Ironic denial: tobože in Croatian political discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (5) : 667–683.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse marker | irony | political language | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Croatian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study investigates syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of 'tobože' (‘pretendedly, allegedly, supposedly’), the Croatian discourse marker expressing ironic denial of another's opinion or belief, and examines its relevance in political discourse.