In:The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter
Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 30] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 25 April 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.toc
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Table of contents
Part ITheoretical and empirical revisiting of irony (and banter)
Chapter 1Introduction: The intricacies of irony and banter
3
Manuel Jobert
Sandrine Sorlin
Chapter 2Irony in a theory of textual meaning
23
Lesley Jeffries
Chapter 3Deconstructing the myth of positively evaluative irony
41
Marta Dynel
Chapter 4Verbal irony, politeness… and three ironic types
59
Olivier Simonin
Chapter 5Irony and semantic prosody revisited
81
Dan McIntyre
Part IIIrony and banter from 17th and 19th century literature to contemporary discourse
Chapter 6Simulating ignorance: Irony and banter on Congreve’s stage
103
Natalie Mandon
Chapter 7The face-value of place-work in William Makepeace Thackeray’s handling of irony
121
Jacqueline Fromonot
Chapter 8The point of banter in the television show Pointless
141
Linda Pillière
Chapter 9Irony as counter positioning: Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis
165
Jan Chovanec
Chapter 10The Rolling Stones promoting Monty Python: The power of irony and banter
195
Sandrine Sorlin
Notes on contributors
215
Index
218
