Phrasal irony: Its form, function and exploitation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1786-1800

  Partington, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collocation; Corpus linguistics; Corpus assisted discourse studies; Evaluation; Irony

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952008958     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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