Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an ";irony-free zone."; Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel our way of life was coming to an end. Here, he mobilizes a squad of philosophers and a psychoanalyst to once again forge a radical way forward, by arguing that no genuinely human life is possible without irony.Becoming human should not be taken for granted, Lear writes. It is something we accomplish, something we get the hang of, and like Kierkegaard and Plato, Lear claims that irony is one of the essential tools we use to do this. For Lear and the participants in his Socratic dialogue, irony is not about being cool and detached like a player in a Woody Allen film. That, as Johannes Climacus, one of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authors, puts it, "is something only assistant professors assume." Instead, it is a renewed commitment to living seriously, to experiencing every disruption that shakes us out of our habitual ways of tuning out of life, with all its vicissitudes. While many over the centuries have argued differently, Lear claims that our feelings and desires tend toward order, a structure that irony shakes us into seeing. Lear's exchanges with his interlocutors strengthen his claims, while his experiences as a practicing psychoanalyst bring an emotionally gripping dimension to what is at stake-the psychic costs and benefits of living with irony.

Irony. --- Cynicism. --- Pessimism --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Skepticism --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Irony

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how conversational irony works, and how it compares with other concepts in which it plays a role. In addition, by means of the analysis of irony as an integrated pervasive feature of language, Barbe questions some basic unstated, literacy and culture-dependent assumptions about language. Her study of irony

Literary semiotics --- Pragmatics --- Irony in literature --- Irony in literature. --- Irony. --- Irony --- Ironie --- Ironie dans la littérature --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Ironie dans la litterature

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among disciplines and of recontextualizing and solving some controversies. Among the topics covered in its pages, readers will find an overview of previous linguistic and non-linguistic approaches. They will also find definitional and taxonomic criteria, an exhaustive exploration of the elements of the ironic act, and a study of their complex forms of interaction. The book also explores the relationship between irony, banter and sarcasm, and it studies how irony interacts with other figurative uses of language. Finally, the book spells out the conditions for "felicitous" irony and re-interprets traditional ironic types (e.g., Socratic, rhetoric, satiric, etc.), in the light of the unified approach it proposes"--

Irony. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Symboliquement, l’opéra et la bibliothèque - la musique et la littérature - occupent le même espace où s’active l’ironie. - Un adage traditionnel a pu, fort longtemps, opposer l’air et les paroles. Nous savons, à présent, que les mots possèdent, à l’égard des choses qu’ils appréhendent, le même pouvoir ironisant que les sons. Ce livre enquête sur ce pouvoir. Figure littéraire autant que musicale, don Juan est doublement impliqué dans cet espace : saisi par l’ironie qui se dépense en lectures contestataires de sa légende, traditionnellement édifiante, il se pose lui-même en ironiste, soulevant, par son discours et son comportement, la question des valeurs, qui mobilisera, vers 1880, la critique nietzschéenne. Sur les traces du débauché, le pornographe, l’être luciférien et l’hérétique envahissent significativement la fiction contemporaine. Marque d’une esthétique différente, où la dissonance, conformément à la prophétie de l’auteur de La Naissance de la tragédie, s’impose aux dépens de la consonance. C’est dire que la musique, lors même qu’on cesse de parler d’elle, demeure présente dans toute réflexion sur l’ironie. On reconnaît ainsi le pouvoir qu’elles ont en commun de relativiser toute manifestation d’un sens déterminé, et de libérer, en contrepartie, cette profusion de simulacres, par quoi l’imaginaire d’une époque se reflète dans ses créations culturelles.

Literature --- Irony in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Ironie dans la littérature --- Littérature moderne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Irony. --- Irony in literature --- Irony --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Ironie dans la littérature --- Littérature moderne --- musique --- littérature --- ironie

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key work carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics, pragmatics, philosophy and literary studies, and from a variety of theoretical perspectives including Grice's approach, Sperber and Wilson's echoic account, and Clark and Gerrig's pretense theory. It looks at a number of uses of irony and explores how irony can be misunderstood cross-culturally, before delving into the key debates on the pragmatics of irony: is irony always negative? Why do speakers communicate via irony, and which strategies do they usually employ? How are irony and sarcasm different? Is irony always funny? To answer these questions, basic pragmatic notions are introduced and explained. It includes multiple examples and activities to enable the reader to apply the theoretical frameworks to actual everyday instances of irony.

Irony. --- Wit and humor. --- Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Research. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Bons mots --- Facetiae --- Humor --- Jests --- Jokes --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Wit and humor, Primitive --- Literature --- Joking --- Laughter --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Philosophy