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Publication details [#54788]

Nuolijärvi, Pirkko and Liisa Tiittula. 2011. Irony in political television debates. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (2) : 572–587.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | audience | irony | political discussion | television debate

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores the construction, use and function of ironic sequences in political television debates during the Finnish presidential election in 2006, taking into account audience perception of and political opponents' responses to (sometimes ambiguous) irony.