Inés Lozano-Palacio
List of John Benjamins publications in which Inés Lozano-Palacio is involved.
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Modeling Irony: A cognitive-pragmatic account
Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 12] 2022. ix, 173 pp.
2026 Metonymy in pragmatic inferencing in a sample of English and Spanish spoken and written texts Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 19–46 | Article
The paper describes some of the various instances of metonymy-guided pragmatic inferencing identified in two corpora, a Spanish corpus and an English corpus, which we compiled as part of project PGC2018-101214-B-I00. The texts in both corpora have approximately the same size and are evenly… read more
2025 Chapter 9. Understanding ironic echoing What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity, Colston, Herbert L. (ed.), pp. 248–270 | Chapter
Irony is one of the figures of speech that has received comparatively less attention than others in pragmatics and cognition. Relevance theorists account for verbal irony in terms of echoic mention (Sperber, 1984), which, in complementary work within Cognitive Linguistics, has been treated as… read more
2024 A cognitive-pragmatic account of the structural elements of the ironic event: A typology of ironist, target, and interpreter roles Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description, Serrano-Losada, Mario and Daniela Pettersson-Traba (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Article
This article discusses the ironist, the interpreter, and the target as structural elements of irony from a cognitive-linguistic standpoint. It builds on the scenario-based approach to irony, where ironic meaning is taken as a contextually adjustable inference that results from a clash between… read more
2023 A multidimensional approach to echoing: Categories, uses, and types Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 210–228 | Article
Stemming from the use-mention distinction by the philosophy of language, Relevance Theory introduces the notion of echo in the context of the echoic mention theory of irony (cf. Wilson & Sperber, 2012). Since then, echoing has awakened multidisciplinary interest, mostly in connection to this… read more
2021 On verbal and situational irony: Towards a unified approach Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 213–240 | Chapter
This chapter treats the notion of ironic echo as subsidiary to the broader notion of epistemic scenario, which applies to both verbal and situational irony. In verbal irony, the existence of an epistemic scenario takes the shape of a pretended agreement with someone’s beliefs, which can be… read more