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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2024-08-01
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Series: | Anglophonia |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/6053 |
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