@article{693ed4e3-685d-406f-b7e9-f3f4f181d63f,
author = {Eszter Valyon},
title = {Ironic rodents – rhetorical and pragmatic dimensions of the ironic discourse
	in the world of fairy-tale rats by La Fontaine},
journal = {Romanica Cracoviensia},
volume = {Volume 9 (2009)},
number = {Volume 9, Issue 1},
year = {2009},
issn = {1732-8705},
pages = {153-168},keywords = {},
abstract = {The present paper discusses the rhetorical / pragmatic dimensions and levels of the verbal irony
	through the example of La Fontaine’s Rat-fables. Verbal irony performs a pragmatic function, making
	use of a potential contrast between expected and experienced events. This makes verbal irony
	generally funnier, more criticizing, more expressive of a difference between expected and ensuing
	events and more protective of the speaker than literal remarks. This paper also proposes a study of
	verbal irony, as purely pragmatic phenomenon, in order to provide a plausible review how irony is
	distinguished from non-irony, how the traditional pragmatic theory, the echoic interpretation theory,
	the pretence theory and the recent implicit display theory could be applied for checking and analysing
	the nature and function of the verbal irony in the fables. Furthermore, this set of adequate theories
	indicates the validity of 17th century fables, and contributes a detailed analysis of the allegoric
	‘ironicalness’.},
doi = {},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/les-rongeurs-ironiques-dimensions-rhetorico-pragmatiques-du-discours-ironique-dans-lunivers-des-rats-fabuleux-de-la-fontaine}
}