The pragmatics of verbal irony: Echo or pretence?

Lingua

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1722-1743

  Wilson, Deirdre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echoic use; Irony; Metarepresentation; Pretence; Relevance theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748750434     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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