Irony

Pragmatic, Social and Legal Consequences

Professor Paul Simpson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7945-4 (ISBN)

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Underpinning many common types of discourse, such as humour, sarcasm, politeness and satire, irony forms a crucial part of our everyday social interactions. But how well do we really understand its use, effects and consequences?

In this book, Paul Simpson develops a comprehensive stylistic-pragmatic framework for understanding the concept of irony and the way it functions in written and spoken language, across different social and cultural contexts. From the Guardian’s ‘victory for irony’ against Elton John to the tweet that sparked the Twitter Joke Trial, he showcases examples from the real world of language and communication to build an accessible model of irony, grounded in actual discursive events and their social and legal material outcomes. While we often consider irony to simply mean the opposite of what was said, Simpson reveals the full range of its theoretical complexities and nuances, shedding light on conferred irony, ironic belief and situational irony to uncover the true pragmatic meaning of everyday ironic utterances.

Paul Simpson is Baines Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK.

1. Irony as Social Action
2. Locating Irony in Language and Context
3. Building a Model of Irony
4. Irony: From Private to Public Sphere
5. Irony and its Consequences in the Public Sphere
6. Irony and the Law
7. Re-Evaluating Irony as Figurative Language
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.2.2024
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Stylistics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4725-7945-3 / 1472579453
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-7945-4 / 9781472579454
Zustand	Neuware