Irony as Relevant Inappropriateness. Attardo, S. Journal of Pragmatics, 32:793--826, 2001. Reprinted in Gibbs & Colston (2007), p. 135-170
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This article presents a theory of irony which claims that an ironical utterance is both inappropriate and relevant to its context. Extensive discussion of previous theories of irony is presented to justify the various aspects of the theory and in particular its two-stage processing approach and the vexing issue of the motivation for the speakers’ use of irony.
@article{attardo_irony_2001,
	title = {Irony as {Relevant} {Inappropriateness}},
	volume = {32},
	abstract = {This article presents a theory of irony which claims that an ironical utterance is both inappropriate and relevant to its context. Extensive discussion of previous theories of irony is presented to justify the various aspects of the theory and in
particular its two-stage processing approach and the vexing issue of the motivation for the speakers’ use of irony.},
	journal = {Journal of Pragmatics},
	author = {Attardo, Salvatore},
	year = {2001},
	note = {Reprinted in Gibbs \& Colston (2007), p. 135-170},
	keywords = {irony},
	pages = {793--826}
}

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