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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
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

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.