The Pragmatic Relevance of Ironical Utterances in Yoruba Interactive Discourse

The Pragmatic Relevance of Ironical Utterances in Yoruba Interactive Discourse

In this paper we have maintained that ironical utterances are features of communicative interaction generally. They characterize conversations, interviews, drama dialogues, orations and stories. We thus observed the need to collect and study the occurrences of the utterances both within and outsid...

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Main Author:	Adegbite, Wale
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Irony Ironical utterances Ironical utterances in pragmatic perspective Functions of ironical utterances in Yoruba interactions Uses of ironical utterances in Yoruba interactions
Online Access:	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2692
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