A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VERBAL IRONY AND SARCASM IN AMERICAN TELEVISION COMEDIES AND DRAMAS
Traditionally, irony has long been viewed as a rhetorical device and broadly defined as “the use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning.” It has been amply studied in different disciplines such as psychology, philosophy and literature, among others. Within linguistics, irony has a...
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Universidad de Chile
2012
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Online Access: | http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/109849 |