Pejoration via sarcastic irony and sarcasm

Marta Dynel | University of Lódz

This chapter addresses two notions which have received hardly any attention in the studies on pejoration: irony and sarcasm. The two concepts are teased out in the light of ample and heterogeneous research. The author argues in favour of differentiating between the two with reference to neo-Gricean terms. The focus is on the negatively evaluative/pejorative potential of sarcasm, as well as sarcastic irony, which is proposed to be a combination of irony and sarcasm. This theoretical study is illustrated with examples extracted from “House”.

Keywords: evaluation, implicature, irony, sarcasm, sarcastic irony, target (butt or victim)

Published online: 31 March 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.228.10dyn

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2016. Comparing and combining covert and overt untruthfulness. Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 ► pp. 174 ff.

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2018. In The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 30], ► pp. 41 ff.

Jobert, Manuel & Sandrine Sorlin

2018. In The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 30], ► pp. 3 ff.

Kapogianni, Eleni

2016. The ironist’s intentions. Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 ► pp. 150 ff.

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