The diversity of irony / Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Athanasiadou, Angeliki, editor.

Colston, Herbert L., editor.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research ; Volume 65.

Cognitive Linguistics Research ; Volume 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irony.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 307 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole. The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony's diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction. On the diversity of irony

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9783110648669

3110648660

9783110652246

3110652242

OCLC:

1149506065