Lecture
Verbal Irony at the Semantics-Pragmatics-Interface: Theoretical Considerations and Experimental Data
- Date
- Wednesday 4 May 2022
- Time
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 154
In this paper, Holden analyzes ironic utterances with a focus on the nature of their descriptive and expressive content. A series of experimental studies is reported, which provide insight into the informational status of the different ironic contents as well as the function of certain irony-indicating markers like quotation marks and modal particles.