Robin Shoaps

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robin Shoaps is involved.

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Shoaps, Robin 2007 “Moral irony”: Modal particles, moral persons and indirect stance-taking in Sakapultek discourse Pragmatics 17:2, pp. 297–335 | Article
This paper presents an ethnographically sensitive account of a family of modal constructions in Sakapultek, a Mayan language spoken in highland Guatemala. The constructions in question share many characteristics with those that have been analyzed as ironic in English and are dubbed “moral irony,”… read more
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