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Publication details [#9038]
Sperber, Dan and Deirdre Wilson. 1981. Irony and the use-mention distinction. In Cole, Peter, ed. Radical pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 295–318.
Annotation
The authors offer an alternative for the traditional semantic and pragmatic approaches to irony, attempting to explain why ironical utterances are made, and why they occasionally implicate the opposite of what they literally say.