The Diversity of Irony /

The Diversity of Irony / / ed. by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston.

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Athanasiadou, Angeliki,
Barnden, John,
Becker, Israela,
Colston, Herbert L.,
Derek Wong, Sing Tsun,
Escandell-Vidal, Victoria,
Giora, Rachel,
Givoni, Shir,
Leonetti, Manuel,
Leykum, Hannah,
Musolff, Andreas,
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela,
Samermit, Apinan,
Samermit, Patrawat,
Tabacaru, Sabina,
Tobin, Vera,
Watling, Graham,
HerausgeberIn:
Athanasiadou, Angeliki,
Colston, Herbert L.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 65
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 307 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction. On the diversity of irony
  • Part I: Diversity across figures
  • Uniting irony, hyperbole and metaphor in an affect-centred, pretence-based framework
  • How defaultness affects text production: Resonating with default interpretations of negative sarcasm
  • Irony in constructions
  • Hyperbolic Figures
  • Denying the salient contrast. Speaker’s attitude in hyperbole
  • Part II: Diversity across languages
  • Thai irony as an indirect relational tool to save face in social interactions
  • England is an appendix; Corrupt officials are like hairs on a nation’s arm: Sarcasm, irony and self-irony in figurative political discourse
  • Grammatical emphasis and irony in Spanish
  • Part III: Diversity across media
  • Eye-rolling, irony and embodiment
  • Experimental investigations of irony as a viewpoint phenomenon
  • Faces of sarcasm. Exploring raised eyebrows with sarcasm in French political debates
  • A pilot study on the diversity in irony production and irony perception
  • Index

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