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The pragmatics of irony and banter
Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin
Ouvrage paru à Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.
Manuel Jobert, Sandrine Sorlin (eds.) / The pragmatics of irony and banter / Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 / ISBN : 978-90-272-0053-2 / vi-221 p.
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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse analysts and literary scholars), while not necessarily agreeing on every aspect of this theoretical premise, discuss and develop the idea. In turn, they consider the workings of these two discursive practices in various corpora (face-to-face or digitally-mediated interactions, novels, comedy shows, etc.) thus providing a wealth of examples and case studies. This well-balanced positioning helps the reader to develop a better understanding of these complex discursive practices that play a crucial part in everyday interaction. Steering a course between traditional perspectives and new theoretical approaches, this innovative and exciting way of looking at irony and banter will no doubt open new avenues for research. - Table of contents
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I. Theoretical and empirical revisiting of irony (and banter)
- Introduction: The intricacies of irony and banter — p. 3
Manuel JOBERT and Sandrine SORLIN - Irony in a theory of textual meaning — p. 23
Lesley JEFFRIES - Deconstructing the myth of positively evaluative irony — p. 41
Marta DYNEL - Verbal irony, politeness… and three ironic types — p. 59
Olivier SIMONIN - Irony and semantic prosody revisited — p. 81
Dan McINTYRE
II. Irony and banter from 17th and 19th century literature to contemporary discourse
- Simulating ignorance: Irony and banter on Congreve’s stage — p. 103
Natalie MANDON - The face-value of place-work in William Makepeace Thackeray’s handling of irony — p. 121
Jacqueline FROMONOT - The point of banter in the television show Pointless — p. 141
Linda PILLIÈRE - Irony as counter positioning: Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis — p. 165
Jan CHOVANEC - The Rolling Stones promoting Monty Python: The power of irony and banter — p. 195
Sandrine SORLIN
- Notes on contributors — p. 215
- Index — p. 218
- Introduction: The intricacies of irony and banter — p. 3
Référence
Manuel Jobert, Sandrine Sorlin (eds.) / The pragmatics of irony and banter (Linguistic Approaches to Literature ; 30) / Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 / ISBN : 978-90-272-0053-2 / vi-221 p.Autre format :
ISBN : 978-90-272-6423-7 (eBook)
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About the authors
Manuel Jobert is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Lyon (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 – France) where he specialises in stylistics and phonology. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield (UK) and he chaired the French Society for English Stylistics (Société de Stylistique Anglaise) from 2011 to 2015. He co-edited Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2013 and Empreintes de l’euphémisme – tours et détours, Paris, L’Harmattan in 2010. He is assistant-editor of Language and Literature (Sage), the international journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association.
Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English language and linguistics at Aix-Marseille University and a fellow member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Specialized in stylistics and pragmatics, she has published books on linguistic defamiliarisation in English literature (La Défamiliarisation linguistique dans le roman anglais contemporain, PULM, 2010) and on language and authority in a historical perspective (Langage et autorité: de l’ordre linguistique à la force dialogique, PUR, 2012). She is also the author of a handbook of stylistics (La Stylistique anglaise. Théories et Pratiques, PUR, 2014) and the co-editor of The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns with Laure Gardelle (John Benjamins, 2015). She has recently published a monograph on an American political TV series (Language and Manipulation in House of Cards: A Pragma-Stylistic Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is the current chair of the Société de Stylistique Anglaise.