Diskurzní ironie v českém jazykovém prostředí

• Authors: Dominika Pospíšilová , Eva Filippová

Title variants

EN

DISCOURSE IRONY IN CZECH

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Discourse irony has recently served as a useful tool for studying the socio-cognitive and socio-communicative underpinnings of communication. Yet, the abundance of its usage across cultures makes the study of its occurrence in everyday discourse a worthwhile undertaking in its own right. The present study examines how Czech speakers (N=54) perceive irony in its different forms and identifies some linguistic characteristics of its usage in Czech. The findings point to important parallels between the usage of irony in Czech and Anglo-American discourse. However, the study also identifies important cultural specifics in the forms of irony gathered from our group of respondents. Respondents tended to mark linguistic categories carrying the core meaning as those likely stressed by an ironist. Consultations with two Czech language corpora failed to confirm that the meaning of irony rests on the emphasis placed on linguistic modifiers. Our findings lead to culture- and context-relevant conclusions about the overt reflective aspects of irony identified by Czech speakers.

Keywords

EN

DISCOURSE/VERBAL/LINGUISTIC IRONY; CZECH LANGUAGE; FORMS OF IRONY; IRONIC INTENT; CROSSCULTURAL PARALLELS; CULTURAL SPECIFICS; SARCASM; HYPERBOLE; PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 177-195

Contributors

author

Dominika Pospíšilová

author

Eva Filippová

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