Carmen Popescu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmen Popescu is involved.
2014 Subjectivity and the dialogic self: The Christian Orthodox poetry of Scott Cairns and Cristian Popescu Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 197–218 | Article
2013 Chapter 10. Metacommunication as ritual: Contemporary Romanian poetry The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness, Sell, Roger D., Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren (eds.), pp. 147–166 | Article
2012 Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 251–264 | Chapter
No single theory of irony could be called universally relevant, as there are various ways of encoding ironic intent in a message. An unpredictable literary dynamics requires flexible concepts and sometimes eclectic approaches. Irony is primarily a communicative strategy. The challenge is to… read more
2011 Understanding ethnic humour in Romanian jokes The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 173–190 | Article
The study of ethnic humour is as popular in the world as ethnic jokes themselves. However, the topic has scarcely been addressed in the Romanian context, and certainly not from a linguistic perspective. This small-scale study represents an attempt to map the territory and understand the… read more