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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-05484S" target="_blank" >GA16-05484S: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter

ISBN

9789027200532

Počet stran výsledku

30

Strana od-do

165-194

Počet stran knihy

221

Název nakladatele

John Benjamins

Místo vydání

Amsterdam

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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