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Pawlak, Matthew C. 2019. How to be sarcastic in Greek: Typical means of signaling sarcasm in the New Testament and Lucian. Humor 32 (4) : 545–564.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

While the cues that signal sarcastic intent across Lucian's writings and the New Testament share many similarities to those debated in modern research, significant differences attest to the impact of both cultural and linguistic forces on the ways in which the ancient Greeks went about being sarcastic.