TY - JOUR
TI - Morphopragmatic View on the Ironic Use of Diminutives in Polish
AU - Polak, Paulina
TI - Morphopragmatic View on the Ironic Use of Diminutives in Polish
AB - This paper focuses on the use of diminutives in Polish to express irony. The phenomenon is analyzed from the perspective of morphopragmatics (Dressler, Merlini Barbaresi 1994; Merlini Barbaresi 2015; Nagórko 2015) and reports on the results of a small-scale informant-based study, in which twelve respondents described their evaluation of the pragmatic meaning contributed by diminutives in three naturally-occurring spoken sentences. In most cases, there was a negative reaction to the diminutives as it was considered they represent an arrogant type of irony.
VL - Volume 18 (2023)
IS - Vol. 18, Issue 2
PY - 2023
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 69
EP - 84
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.23.004.18045
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studies-in-polish-linguistics/artykul/morphopragmatic-view-on-the-ironic-use-of-diminutives-in-polish
KW - diminutives
KW - morphopragmatics
KW - irony
KW - evaluation
KW - conversation
KW - perception