“Lift your game Martina!": Deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English

Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-98

  Goddard, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110911114.65     Document Type: Chapter

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