How salient are sarcastic questions?

This article explores the connection between salience and sarcasm through focusing on three interrogative constructions that can convey both sarcastic and literal meanings – WH-questions followed by a self-answer, alternative questions, and disjunctive polar questions. A large-scale corpus research...

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Main Authors: Efrat Levant, Nicole Katzir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2024-08-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/6053
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