Publications

Publication details [#54851]

Partington, Alan. 2011. Phrasal irony: Its form, function and exploitation. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (6) : 1786–1800.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | form | function | irony | phrase structure grammar

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Drawing on corpus methodology, this article explores the sofar understudied practice of phrasal irony, and in particular: its structure; how, why and where writers employ it; and how it is linked to other better known irony types.