Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 252 Seiten)
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9781000765069
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1000765067
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9781003183044
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1003183042
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9781000765960
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1000765962
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics
Content:
This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic texts, using an empirically rigorous approach in distinguishing between central irony, non-central ironies, and non-ironies and highlighting a new way forward for irony research. The volume considers the current landscape of irony, in which the term is used with increasing frequency with the knock-on effect of a loosening of its meaning. Pattison addresses this challenge by applying a systematic form of analysis, rooted in frameworks from pragmatics and complementary disciplines, to a database of over 500 irony candidates from a wide range of sources. The book uses these examples to illustrate the features of central ironies as well as the attributes used to differentiate between central ironies, non-central ironies, and non-ironies. These attributes are mapped across four key domains, including: difference and opposition; the role of context; how ironies are signaled; and speaker attitude and intention. Taken together, the volume puts forth a credible account for more clearly characterizing examples of irony and equips researchers with a comprehensive step-by-step method for undertaking future research. This book is key reading for scholars in stylistics, pragmatics, literary studies, and psycholinguistics
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032023540
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032023557
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032023546
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pattison, Steven Characterising irony New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 ISBN 9781032023540
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ironie
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