Verbal Irony: Differences in Usage Across Written Genres

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 290-310

  Burgers, Christian ^a   van Mulken, Margot ^b   Schellens, Peter Jan ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; genre; nonliteral language; pragmatics; verbal irony; written communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864808846     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X12446596     Document Type: Article

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