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A Theory of Irony as Event
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 52, Number 1, March 2019
- pp. 155-171
- 10.1353/mos.2019.0010
- Article
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Abstract:
Scholars from different disciplines have focused on articulated ironies rather than situational ironies. The latter should be understood as events. Their pattern of reversing a forecast is also present in articulated ironies. Understanding this helps elucidate the nature, motivation, and meaning of articulated ironies, and illuminates complex ironic texts.