TY  - GEN
T1  - Modeling irony : a cognitive-pragmatic account
T2  - Figurative thought and language ;
A1  - Lozano-Palacio, Inés
A1  - Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, 1961-
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1290244530
AB  - "This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among disciplines and of recontextualizing and solving some controversies. Among the topics covered in its pages, readers will find an overview of previous linguistic and non-linguistic approaches. They will also find definitional and taxonomic criteria, an exhaustive exploration of the elements of the ironic act, and a study of their complex forms of interaction. The book also explores the relationship between irony, banter and sarcasm, and it studies how irony interacts with other figurative uses of language. Finally, the book spells out the conditions for "felicitous" irony and re-interprets traditional ironic types (e.g., Socratic, rhetoric, satiric, etc.), in the light of the unified approach it proposes"--
CN  - P301.5.I73 L69 2022
SN  - 9789027258144
SN  - 9027258147
SN  - 9789027210814
KW  - Irony.
KW  - Cognitive grammar.
KW  - Pragmatics.
KW  - Ironie.
KW  - Grammaire cognitive.
KW  - Pragmatique.
KW  - irony.
KW  - pragmatics.
KW  - Cognitive grammar
KW  - Irony
KW  - Pragmatics
ER  -