Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua Inglesa / In the recent decades, many studies on the subject of sarcasm have been conducted,
though not as abundantly as irony has been investigated into. However, the expression of
sarcasm seems to be as relevant as the expression of irony in the general study of the main aspects and dimensions involved in the configuration of pragmatic meanings that are
characteristic of conversational interactions.
Sarcasm has often been intermingled with irony in the research conducted in different academic disciplines. Within linguistic studies, there is no consensus on whether
irony and sarcasm are part of the same communicative phenomenon or whether they are
related to each other hierarchically, such that irony may be viewed as constituting the
superordinate category and sarcasm may be regarded as a manifestation of the former. In fact, the latter has been defined, in broad terms, “as an overtly aggressive type of irony”
(Attardo, 2000:795). However, some other specialists, such as Barbe (1995), contend that
the expression of either sarcasm or irony involves different, if not opposite, principles of pragmatic behaviour: on the one hand, an ‘ironic utterance’constitutes a ‘face-saving’ act; on the other, a sarcastic utterance is a ‘face-threatening act’ (cf. Brown and Levinson, 1987).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/114298 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | López Quiroz, Felipe |
| Contributors | Muñoz Acevedo, Daniel, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Escuela de Postgrado, Departamento de Lingüística |
| Publisher | Universidad de Chile |
| Source Sets | Universidad de Chile |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Tesis |
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