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Publication details [#28403]

Giora, Rachel. 1995. On irony and negation. Discourse Processes 19 (2) : 239–264.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

figurative meaning | indirect expression | irony | literal meaning | negation

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study considers irony as a kind of indirect negation, activating both the negated literal and the implicated ironic meanings and thus more difficult to understand than nonironic speech. It serves communicative goals which direct negation cannot attain.