Goran Tanacković

List of John Benjamins publications in which Goran Tanacković is involved.

Article

Belaj, Branimir and Goran Tanacković 2022 Verbal and situational irony: On the conceptual mechanisms underlying two patterns of irony Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Chapter

Unlike metaphor and metonymy, irony has no “standardized” conceptual tools to rely on for its detection. The detection of irony proceeds entirely on-line; its comprehension does not rest on prior acquisition of conventional figures in the processes of language learning; it rests on our ability… read more