Irony, humor or both? The model revisited

Galia Hirsch

doi:https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.316.01hir

Irony, humor or both? The model revisited

Galia Hirsch

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

This contribution revisits the difference between irony and humor taking into account ew approaches shedding light on the complicated relationship between irony and humor (Dynel 2013; Gibbs, Bryant & Colston 2014; Garmendia 2014; Kapogianni 2011; Piskorska 2014; Yus 2016). In previous research (Hirsch 2011a, 2011b), the differentiation between irony and humor was established based on a comparative model, which distinguished between cues for irony and cues for humor through pragmatic analysis of source texts and their translations. In view of some of the new accounts (Dynel 2013; Kapogianni 2011; Piskorska 2014), the study purports to adapt the model, incorporating the concept of surrealistic irony and concluding that differences in the use of explicitation strategies in translation are still a decisive tool in setting the boundaries between irony and humor.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Discourse of Indirectness. Cues, voices and functions
Editors	Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar, Galia Hirsch
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	19-38
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027260567
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.316.01hir
State	Published - 2020

Publication series

Name	Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
Volume	316

Keywords

Criticism
Echoic mention
Humor
Irony
Literature
Non-sense
Translation

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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