What's Irony?:

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  • アイロニーとは何か?
  • ―アイロニーの暗黙的提示理論
  • Implicit Display Theory of Verbal Irony

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This paper proposes implicit display theory of verbal irony that overcomes several difficulties of previous irony theories. The theory claims that irony implicitly displays the fact that its utterance situation is surrounded by ironic environment consisting of three properties, but hearers recognize an utterance to be potentially ironic even when they do not see all the three properties implicitly displayed by the utterance. Implicit display of ironic environment is accomplished in such a way that an utterance alludes to the speaker's expectation, violates one of pragmatic principles, and is accompanied by several cues for implying the speaker's negative emotional attitude. This paper also shows the validity of implicit display theory by explaining how the theory is consistent with various aspects of irony such as its echoic nature, ironic cues, unintentional irony, the asymmetry of irony and so on.

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  • CRID
    1390282679461660544
  • NII Article ID
    130004491168
  • DOI
    10.11225/jcss.4.4_99
  • ISSN
    18815995
    13417924
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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