Mod­el­ing irony: a cog­ni­­tive-prag­­mat­ic account This book adopts a broad cog­ni­­tive-prag­­mat­ic per­spec­tive on irony which sees iron­ic mean­ing as the result of com­plex infer­en­tial activ­i­ty aris­ing from con­flict­ing con­cep­tu­al sce­nar­ios. This view of irony is the basis for an ana­lyt­i­cal­ly … Weit­er­lesen →