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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

irony | mental space

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COGL/html

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.