Form-function dialectics in the analysis of irony in political discourse

  1. Esperanza Morales-López
Revista:
Revista española de lingüística aplicada

ISSN: 0213-2028

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 34

Número: 2

Páginas: 527-554

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.19015.MOR DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Revista española de lingüística aplicada

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In this paper, I analyze the construction of the trope of irony in a political interview, more specifically the interview with a Spanish politician on television in 2013. Its context is the emergence of the 15M, a citizen’s protest movement against the cuts imposed by the European Union and the Spanish Government. From a theoretical-methodological point of view, I adopt a holistic perspective, inspired by Halliday’s approach of jointly analysing the form-function relationship and White’s constructivism. I also review the different definitions and explanations of irony. After analysing the formal resources that construct irony, I give an account of the cognitive frameworks that are opposed in this discourse, and finally describe their narrative disposition and the communicative functions that those resources fulfill

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This research is part of the Project CODISCO financed by MINECO and Feder Funds. FFI2017-85227-R. Period: January 1 2028 – September 30 2021. http://cei.udc.es.

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