Differentiation between irony and sarcasm in contemporary linguistic studies.
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2017
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Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля
Анотація
The paper aims to evaluate the contemporary claims for differentiating between irony and sarcasm
within linguistic pragmatics and from the perspective of some neighboring fields of research. Their
contribution to solving this provocative problem is described. The issues that need further comprehension
and investigation are defined.
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Another 40 years have passed since Dan Sperber compared the vicennial account of
irony in psycholinguistics to the two millennia long rhetorical tradition in irony research [1, p. 130]. Such a relatively insignificant historical period has not brought
many changes to the rhetorical paradigm, whereas temporal and substantial contribution on the
part of psycholinguistics more than tripled. Besides, there have appeared numerous studies of
verbal irony within the bounds of sociology, discourse analysis, speech act and politeness theories, corpus-based and computational linguistics, sentiment analysis and other academic viewpoints. Obviously, no unified theory to cover the whole range of the figure of irony is at hand yet,
moreover, it might seem ironic, that a lot of vexed issues have hardly changed their status irrespective of numerous and diverse research endeavors. One of such highly provocative and enlightening topics is irony versus sarcasm differentiation.
There is no consensus on whether sarcasm and irony is essentially the same thing with superficial differences or if they differ significantly [2, p. 795].
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irony, sarcasm, verbal, speech act, politeness, evaluation, constitutive rules.