Publications

Publication details [#64298]

Sorlin, Sandrine and Manuel Jobert, eds. 2018. The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter. (Linguistic approaches to literature 30). John Benjamins. vi, 221 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

This volume analyses irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse analysts and literary scholars), while not necessarily agreeing on every aspect of this theoretical premise, discuss and develop the idea. In turn, they consider the workings of these two discursive practices in various corpora (face-to-face or digitally-mediated interactions, novels, comedy shows, etc.) thus providing a wealth of examples and case studies. This well-balanced positioning helps the reader to develop a better understanding of these complex discursive practices that play a crucial part in everyday interaction.