The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter.

Intro -- The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Part ITheoretical and empirical revisiting of irony (and banter) -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The intricacies of irony and banter -- 1.Origins and objectives -- 2.What is an ironical utterance? -- 2.1Beyond the classical trope -- 2.2Subcategories -- 3.Competing theories -- 4.Defining banter -- 4.1A cultural approach -- 4.2Linguistic approaches to banter -- 5.Book contents -- References -- Chapter 2. Irony in a theory of textual meaning -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Textual meaning: The background -- 3.Typology of the bases of irony -- 3.1Text vs. text incongruity -- 3.2Text vs. interpersonal meaning incongruity -- 3.3Text vs. situational incongruity -- 3.4Interpersonal vs. interpersonal meaning incongruity -- 3.5Interpersonal vs. situational meaning incongruity -- 3.6Situational vs. situational incongruity -- 4.Irony and other incongruities -- 5. Dramatic irony -- 6.Conclusions about irony -- References -- Chapter 3. Deconstructing the myth of positively evaluative irony -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Infrequency of positively evaluative irony -- 3.Positively evaluative irony -- 4.Negatively evaluated antecedent -- 5.Final remarks -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 4. Verbal irony, politeness… and three ironic types -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Leech's framework -- 2.1 Mock politeness, irony and sarcasm -- 2.2Leech's pragmatic procedure -- 2.3Leech's triggers -- 3.How to define verbal irony? -- 3.1Different approaches -- 3.2Contrastive irony -- 3.3Impersonation irony -- 4.Politeness, irony and banter -- 4.1A third type of verbal irony -- 4.2"Genteel irony" and banter -- 5.Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. Irony and semantic prosody revisited -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Semantic prosody -- 2.1 Semantic prosody and irony.

2.2 Semantic prosody as one aspect of extended units of meaning -- 2.3 Semantic prosody versus semantic preference -- 3.Irony in "Aftermyth of war" -- 4.Conclusion -- References -- Part III. rony and banter from 17th and 19th century literature to contemporary discourse -- Chapter 6. Simulating ignoranceIrony and banter on Congreve's stage -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Irony and banter in satire -- 3.Impaired vision and erroneous evaluations -- 4.Irony in banter: Connivance between speaker and audience -- 5.Irony, banter, and the simulation of ignorance as a face-saving strategy -- 6.Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. The face-value of place-work in William Makepeace Thackeray's handling of irony -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Topology of irony: Placework and speaker's strategy -- 2.1The one-place structure of self-directed irony -- 2.2The two-place structure of irony directed to others -- 2.3The three-place structure of redirected irony -- 3.Topography of irony: Placework and hearer's reception -- 3.1The one-place structure of interpretation of irony -- 3.2The two-place structure of flagged irony -- 3.3The three-place configuration of sign-posted irony -- 4.Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. The point of banter in the television show Pointless -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Defining banter -- 3.Theories on banter -- 4. Banter within an interactional pragmatic framework -- 5. Banter and Pointless -- 6.The actants in the process of banter -- 6.1Interaction between speaker(s) and hearer(s) -- 6.2From dyadic relations to multiple participants -- 6.3Reacting to banter -- 6.4Language and encyclopaedia -- 7.Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. Irony as counter positioningReader comments on the EU migrant crisis -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Online comments and discussion forums -- 3.Data and analysis -- 3.1Irony and echoic mention.

3.1.1 Echoic mention of primary media texts -- 3.1.2 Echoic mention of non-media texts and intertextuality -- 3.2Irony and categorization -- 3.2.1Self-categorization -- 3.2.2Other-categorization -- 3.2.3Polarized categorization and intertextuality -- 3.3Irony and fictionalization -- 4.Conclusion -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- Chapter 10. The Rolling Stones promoting Monty PythonThe power of irony and banter -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Dramatic irony in the Text World -- 2.1Twisted expectations -- 2.2Incongruous subject positions -- 3.Processing irony and banter -- 3.1 Mock dramatic irony -- 3.2Irony and banter -- 4.The pragmatic functions of irony -- 4.1 Echoic relevance -- 4.2Two birds (at least) with one stone -- 5.Conclusion -- References -- AppendixTranscription symbols (adapted from Bednarek 2012: 246) -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together.

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