A Pragmatic-Semantic Analysis of Irony in Octavio Paz’s Literary Essays
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18485/beoiber.2019.3.1.4Abstract
In this paper we analyze a few fragments of Octavio Paz’s literary essays. This analysis is aimed to propose a pragmatic-semantic study of specific utterances, which contains a study of irony as a linguistic argumentative instrument. The analysis is based on two main theories: on the one hand, the argumentation theory stated by Anscombre and Ducrot, and on the other hand, the relevance theory developed by Sperber and Wilson. The most important claims and concepts of each theory are presented in order to construct a suitable theoretical framework which allows us to describe different kinds of ironies and their argumentative and cognitive effects on readers.
Key words: irony, argumentation, pragmatics, literary essay, Octavio Paz.
References
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
