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Publication details [#2106]
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
ISBN
902725046; 1556193270
Abstract
In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how conversational irony works, and how it compares with other concepts in which it plays a role. In addition, by means of the analysis of irony as an integrated pervasive feature of language, Barbe questions some basic unstated, literacy and culture-dependent, assumptions about language. Her study of irony complements contemporary research in the area of conversational analysis.
(Publisher Book Description)
Acknowledgments xi
An Invitation to Irony 3
"But that's not ironic" 15
Linguistic Approaches to Irony 33
Traditional Approaches to Irony 61
Taking Stock 73
Irony and Jokes 93
Irony and Lies 111
Explicit Irony 131
The Translation of Irony 145
Epilogue 171
Notes 177
References 189
Index 203