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Abstract
My paper deals with responses to conversational irony in two different contexts. As
an interaction analyst I am interested in how interlocutors co-construct the whole
conversational sequence, in what they do with the ironic act in reacting to it.
I combine data analytic methods from interactional sociolinguistics with questions
from cognition theory. I shall point out how the interaction analysis of different
response types contributes to the development of irony theory.
A look at two data sets (informal conversations among friends and pro- and con-TV-
discussions) provides interesting differences in responses to irony in these contexts.
One important difference in responding appears to depend on whether the irony is
framed and understood as critical or as friendly. From the format of the responses we
can often access the processing of the ironic (though not always). If there are
responses to the literal meaning and to the implicatum, we can take this as evidence
that principally both the implicated and the literal message is processed. We find five
response types: Responses to the literal, to the implicated, mixed types, just laughter
and ambiguous types which do not allow us to assign a meaning. The data further
confirm that the different types of responses to irony create different activity types:
Responses to the literal develop a humorous discourse type of joint teasing. These are
highly frequent during the dinners among friends. In the context of pro and con
debates responses within the group differ in connection to the line of arguing.
Responses to the implicatum are much more frequent here. They recontextualize the
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serious debate. Very often, those who share the general opinion of the ironist, laugh -
those who do not reject the implication of the...
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