The theory of incongruent similarity
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- Ana Kocman Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Zagreb Departamento de Lengua Española C/ Ivana Lučića 3 10 010 Zagreb, Croacia
Abstract
The research methodology has consisted of a contextual analysis of the literal message and the implicit one of the ironic statements. The starting point of the investigation has been
the definitions of the context made by different authors and two theoretical approaches to irony: irony occurs in a context (Grice, 1975); its understanding requires the processing of the literal meaning (Giora, 1999). We argue that verbal irony occurs when the sender
explicitly says something that is similar to what he implies but the implicit and the explicit message are at the same time inconsistent with each other or one of them is inconsistent with the context.
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