
Irony, Deception and Humour
Seeking the Truth about Overt and Covert Untruthfulness
Marta Dynel(Author)
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 19. March 2018
Book
Hardback
XVI, 487 pages
978-1-5015-1642-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a neo-Gricean framework and consistently discussed as representing overt or covert untruthfulness. The postulates that represent the interface between language philosophy and pragmatics are illustrated with scripted interactions culled from the series
House
, which help appreciate the complexities of the three concepts at hand. Apart from affording new insights into the nature of irony, deception and humour, this book critically examines previous literature on these notions, as well as relevant aspects of Grice's philosophy of language. Giving a state-of-the-art picture of untruthfulness, this publication will be of interest to both experienced and inexperienced researchers studying Grice's philosophy, irony, deception and/or humour.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
988 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5015-1642-9 (9781501516429)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
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E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
Available for download
Person
Marta Dynel , University of Lódz, Poland