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Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F18%3A00100699" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/18:00100699 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.09cho" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.09cho</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.09cho" target="_blank" >10.1075/lal.30.09cho</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis

  • Original language description

    This chapter examines how ironic utterances in online news forums are used for the purpose of collective positioning of the commenting readers in opposition to other groups. Approaching irony as an act of echoic interpretation, the analysis focuses on how readers echo both the representations made by the media texts and the beliefs and ideologies presumed to be held by other social actors. It is argued that through irony, readers express their oppositional attitudes, disaffiliating themselves from the ironized social actors and their real or assumed representations. Simultaneously, ironists enforce their own opinions and standpoints, which are not just personal but – as argued in the paper – representative of a larger group to which the commenter belongs. By tracing how irony is used in reader comments to delegitimize dissonant views and emphasize contrastive self-positioning, this paper seeks to extend the application of an interactional pragmatic approach to irony by adding a critical discourse analytical dimension to it.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60203 - Linguistics

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA16-05484S" target="_blank" >GA16-05484S: The construction of otherness in media and post-media discourses</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter

  • ISBN

    9789027200532

  • Number of pages of the result

    30

  • Pages from-to

    165-194

  • Number of pages of the book

    221

  • Publisher name

    John Benjamins

  • Place of publication

    Amsterdam

  • UT code for WoS chapter