Salvatore Attardo's Abstracts Pages
Humor and Irony in Interaction: from mode adoption to failure of
detection.
Salvatore Attardo
To appear in Luigi Anolli, Rita Ciceri, Giuseppe Riva (eds) Say
not to Say: New perspectives on miscommunication. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Abstract
A fundamental definitional problem is examined for humor and
irony: in neither case can the subclasses of these phenomena be
kept distinct. This indeterminacy is reduced to the indeterminacy
of indirect speech and implicature, on which irony entirely and
humor at least largely rely. The ``performance'' of humor and
irony is investigated by examining the motivations for Ss to use
irony and the responses that Hs produce to it, which range from
mode adoption to ignoring it (deliberately or not).
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