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Language: en
Pages: 229
Pages: 229
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-25 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research
Language: en
Pages: 278
Pages: 278
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-31 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
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, corp
Language: en
Pages: 185
Pages: 185
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicti
Language: en
Pages: 369
Pages: 369
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illu
Language: en
Pages: 179
Pages: 179
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key work ca