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Publication details [#6988]

Myers, Alice Roy. 1981. The function of irony in discourse. Text 1 (4) : 407–423.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | irony

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Irony is shown to be a discourse strategy: some historical aspects of the concept are highlighted, and its role and function, and way of functioning in discourse are discussed.