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The pragmatics of irony and banter /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
Volume 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Part ITheoretical and empirical revisiting of irony (and banter); Chapter 1. Introduction: The intricacies of irony and banter; 1. Origins and objectives; 2. What is an ironical utterance?; 2.1Beyond the classical trope; 2.2Subcategories; 3.Competing theories; 4. Defining banter; 4.1A cultural approach; 4.2Linguistic approaches to banter; 5. Book contents; References; Chapter 2. Irony in a theory of textual meaning; 1. Introduction; 2. Textual meaning: The background.
- 3. Typology of the bases of irony3.1Text vs. text incongruity; 3.2Text vs. interpersonal meaning incongruity; 3.3Text vs. situational incongruity; 3.4Interpersonal vs. interpersonal meaning incongruity; 3.5Interpersonal vs. situational meaning incongruity; 3.6Situational vs. situational incongruity; 4. Irony and other incongruities; 5. Dramatic irony; 6. Conclusions about irony; References; Chapter 3. Deconstructing the myth of positively evaluative irony; 1. Introduction; 2. Infrequency of positively evaluative irony; 3. Positively evaluative irony; 4. Negatively evaluated antecedent.
- 5. Final remarksFunding; References; Chapter 4. Verbal irony, politeness ... and three ironic types; 1. Introduction; 2. Leech's framework; 2.1 Mock politeness, irony and sarcasm; 2.2Leech's pragmatic procedure; 2.3Leech's triggers; 3. How to define verbal irony?; 3.1Different approaches; 3.2Contrastive irony; 3.3Impersonation irony; 4. Politeness, irony and banter; 4.1A third type of verbal irony; 4.2"Genteel irony" and banter; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. Irony and semantic prosody revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. Semantic prosody; 2.1 Semantic prosody and irony.
- 2.2 Semantic prosody as one aspect of extended units of meaning2.3 Semantic prosody versus semantic preference; 3. Irony in "Aftermyth of war"; 4. Conclusion; References; Part III. rony and banter from 17th and 19th century literature to contemporary discourse; Chapter 6. Simulating ignoranceIrony and banter on Congreve's stage; 1. Introduction; 2. Irony and banter in satire; 3. Impaired vision and erroneous evaluations; 4. Irony in banter: Connivance between speaker and audience; 5. Irony, banter, and the simulation of ignorance as a face-saving strategy; 6. Conclusion; References.
- Chapter 7. The face-value of place-work in William Makepeace Thackeray's handling of irony1. Introduction; 2. Topology of irony: Placework and speaker's strategy; 2.1The one-place structure of self-directed irony; 2.2The two-place structure of irony directed to others; 2.3The three-place structure of redirected irony; 3. Topography of irony: Placework and hearer's reception; 3.1The one-place structure of interpretation of irony; 3.2The two-place structure of flagged irony; 3.3The three-place configuration of sign-posted irony; 4. Conclusion; References.