Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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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
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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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
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