Irony, deception and humour : seeking the truth about overt and covert untruthfulness /
This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a neo...
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Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2018]
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| Series: | Mouton series in pragmatics ;
21. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Theoretical preliminaries, terminological conundrums and empirical foundations
- Chapter 2. (Neo- )Gricean views of cooperation and (un)truthfulness
- Chapter 3. Overt untruthfulness: Irony
- Chapter 4. Covert untruthfulness: Deception
- Chapter 5. Interfaces between humour and (un)truthfulness
- Epilogue
- References
- Index.