A Pragmatic Analysis of Irony
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The purpose of this paper is to examine a process of understanding verbal irony in relevance theory. According to Sperber and Wilson (1995), an ironic utterance is second degree of interpretation of someone`s thought or utterance; the speaker echoes an attributed opinion to express her attitude of disapproving or ridiculing, while dissociating herself from it. In this paper I will show that echoic interpretation of an attributed thought in relevance-theoretic terms can be applied to a variety of ironic utterances which fall aside Grice`s account.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine a process of understanding verbal irony in relevance theory. According to Sperber and Wilson (1995), an ironic utterance is second degree of interpretation of someone`s thought or utterance; the speaker echoes an attributed opinion to express her attitude of disapproving or ridiculing, while dissociating herself from it. In this paper I will show that echoic interpretation of an attributed thought in relevance-theoretic terms can be applied to a variety of ironic utterances which fall aside Grice`s account.