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Publication details [#42812]
Kihara, Yoshihiko. 2005. The mental space structure of verbal irony. Cognitive Linguistics 16 (3) : 513–430.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper presents an expectation space theory of verbal irony, drawing on Fauconnier’s (1985) mental space theory and Sperber and Wilson’s (1986) echoic interpretation theory.