In:Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account
María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
[Figurative Thought and Language 14] 2022
► pp. 227–258
Chapter 6Irony
Published online: 13 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.c6
Article outline
- 6.1Defining verbal irony: From rhetoric to pragmatics
- 6.1.1Traditional approaches
- 6.1.2Communicative approaches
- 6.2Irony and cognitive modeling
- 6.3Towards a synthetic approach to irony
- 6.3.1Ironic complexity
- 6.3.2Historical uses of irony
- 6.4Irony-based figures of speech
- 6.4.1Antiphrasis
- 6.4.2Sarcasm
- 6.4.3Banter
- 6.4.4Satire
- 6.4.5Prolepsis
- 6.5Exploiting cross-domain contrast further: Paradox and oxymoron
- 6.6Constraining irony, paradox, and oxymoron
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