Chapter 3
A Levinsonian account of irony in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’
Club
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2Accounts of irony
- 3.2.1The Gricean approach
- 3.2.2Relevance theory and irony
- 3.3Irony and the use of Levinson’s principles
- 3.4Application of Levinsonian analysis to ironies from
TRC
- 3.4.1Example 1: “Such dazzling
repartee”
- 3.4.2Example 2: “showing a lack
of judgement and an absence of patriotic decency that can scarcely be
credited”
- 3.4.3Example 3: “With these and
other such pleasantries”
- 3.4.4Example 4: “a drink which
differed hardly at all”
- 3.4.5Example 5: “I can safely
say that those two won’t be seeing each other again”
- 3.4.6Example 6: “The fervour of
my gratitude is well-nigh inexpressible”
- 3.5Summary
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Notes
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