PATTISON Steven C.
Department Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Center for Language Education Position Professor |
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Research Period | 2007 |
Research Topic | The study of irony and other tropes and how they can be analysed and understood through linguistic theory |
Research Type | Individual Research |
Research Division | |
Keyword | stylistics, pragmatics, implicature, opposition, lexical semantics, context, common ground theory, point of view |
KAKENHI Category | Chinese literature
Linguistics English linguistics |
Details | This research takes a range of theories applying them to the study of irony, with a particular emphasis on examples of irony in plays. |