Title: The Study of Irony within the Framework of Relevance-Adaptation
Abstract: Pragmatics and cognitive linguistics provide different perspectives for irony study. But there exits some problems due to the constricts of these theories and the complex phenomenon of irony. This article combines Relevance Theory and Adaptation Theory to form a framework of Relevance-Adaptation to explain irony, which will result in a better understanding and explanation of the phenomenon of irony.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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