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Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2013
ISBN
9027256365, 9789027256362
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14855690 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 231
Pages
276\277
Time added
2015-07-24 14:01:31

Description

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. The volume is organized in three parts referring to pragmatic perspectives, mediated discourse, and conversational interaction. This book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in pragmatics, discourse analysis as well as social sciences.

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