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Published 2013.
Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent ...
Published 2013.
Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics, General Theory of Verbal Humor, Neo-Gricean Pragmatics or Argumentation. Part one, Highlights, revolves around the types of inferred meaning which are drawn from irony and humor. Part two, Genres, focuses on humorous genres, such as parodies and cartoons, and non-humorous genres like conversation. This book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in pragmatics, discourse analysis as well as social sciences.
