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Publication details [#54775]

Zhao, Hong. 2011. A relevance-theoretic approach to verbal irony: A case study of ironic utterances in Pride and Prejudice. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1) : 175–182.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive pragmatics | discourse analysis | irony | literature | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study proposes a relevance-theoretic framework for verbal irony, in particular in literary texts, such as e.g. in Austen's book 'Pride and Prejudice'. Irony identification can be facilitated by the multiple activation of contextual sources.