Irony Garmendia Hardback Cambridge University Press 9781107092631

Irony\n\nAn accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communication.\n\nJoana Garmendia (Author)\n\n9781107092631, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 22 March 2018\n\n178 pages\n22.2 x 14.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.33 kg\n\nIrony 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 carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics, pragmatics, philosophy and literary studies, and from a variety of theoretical perspectives including Grice's approach, Sperber and Wilson's echoic account, and Clark and Gerrig's pretense theory. It looks at a number of uses of irony and explores how irony can be misunderstood cross-culturally, before delving into the key debates on the pragmatics of irony: is irony always negative? Why do speakers communicate via irony, and which strateg]