Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU
migrant crisis

C 2018

Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis

CHOVANEC, Jan

Basic information

Original name

Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis

Name in Czech

Ironie jako forma vyjadřování postoje : Komentáře čtenářů na migrační krizi v EU

Authors

CHOVANEC, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. Amsterdam, The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, p. 165-194, 30 pp. Linguistic Approaches to Literature 30, 2018

Publisher

John Benjamins

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00100699

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-90-272-0053-2

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.09cho

Keywords (in Czech)

humor; pragmatika; jinakost; analýza diskurzu

Keywords in English

humour; pragmatics; otherness; discourse analysis

Abstract

V originále

This chapter examines how ironic utterances in online news forums are used for the purpose of collective positioning of the commenting readers in opposition to other groups. Approaching irony as an act of echoic interpretation, the analysis focuses on how readers echo both the representations made by the media texts and the beliefs and ideologies presumed to be held by other social actors. It is argued that through irony, readers express their oppositional attitudes, disaffiliating themselves from the ironized social actors and their real or assumed representations. Simultaneously, ironists enforce their own opinions and standpoints, which are not just personal but – as argued in the paper – representative of a larger group to which the commenter belongs. By tracing how irony is used in reader comments to delegitimize dissonant views and emphasize contrastive self-positioning, this paper seeks to extend the application of an interactional pragmatic approach to irony by adding a critical discourse analytical dimension to it.

Links

GA16-05484S, research and development project

Name: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

CHOVANEC, Jan. Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis. In Jobert, Manuel; Sorlin, Sandrine. The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter. 1st ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018, p. 165-194. Linguistic Approaches to Literature 30. ISBN 978-90-272-0053-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.09cho.

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CHOVANEC, Jan. Irony as counter positioning : Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis. In Jobert, Manuel; Sorlin, Sandrine. \textit{The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter}. 1st ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018, p.~165-194. Linguistic Approaches to Literature 30. ISBN~978-90-272-0053-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lal.30.09cho.

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