PATTISON Steven C.
   Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Center for Language Education
   Position   Professor
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 CategoryChinese 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.