Implications of the relevance approach to the context for the interpretation of ironic utterances
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- M. Ángeles Ruíz Moneva (ES) Universidad de Zaragoza
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The main purpose of this work will be to show the existing relationships between ironic utterances and the context where they take place, following the general relevance framework put forward to account for communication. This work will deal with the different approaches that have been proposed by relevance theory to deal with the context, which tend to emphasize its cognitive nature. If it is assumed that the context plays a definite role in the interpretation of ironic utterances, and that, as relevance theoreticians point out, the context is chosen by the participants taking part in any communicative interaction, it turns out that the accessibility that participants may have to the context envisaged by the speaker will influence their perception of irony.
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