The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony
depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between …

This paper takes as its bedrock a neo-Gricean definition of the trope of irony, championing
two essential conditions for diagnosing its presence: overt untruthfulness (or pretence) …

We examine how call-center employees draw on opposed discourses to understand the
purpose and consequences of performance measurement as workplace surveillance …

In humor studies, incongruity and superiority are traditionally regarded as two independent
concepts. Taken separately, each concept both under-and over-determines the field of …

This paper, representing theoretical pragmatics, aims to shed new light on the workings of
irony, drawing on the research from the field of pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and the …

One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the
theoretical and empirical developments that have occurred in the area of (im) politeness in …

“Irony” tends to be used as an umbrella term for a number of distinct phenomena (eg
Sperber 1984; Haverkate 1990; Kreuz and Roberts 1993; Simpson 2011). One of them is …

Whilst not all irony (understood as a figure of speech) coincides with humour, the two
phenomena do overlap. The paramount objective of this paper is to elucidate the central …

Human interaction is strongly loaded with–and influenced by–emotion. 1 The observations
and findings of different scholars at the turn and first two decades of the twenty-first century …

La idea que anima estos ensayos se encuentra en un terreno medular de la investigación
contemporánea en ciencias sociales y humanidades. Es la convicción de que la ironía es la …