Irony in political television debates  

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Nuolijarvi, Pirkko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 02 (2011), page 572–587.
Topik: Irony Conversation analysis Rhetoric TV debate Political discourse Finnish language
Fulltext: Nuolijarvi_P.pdf (194.65KB)

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This article deals with the sequences of irony in TV debates during the Finnish presidential election in 2006. The aim of the article is, within the framework of Conversation Analysis, to analyse how irony is accomplished in the interaction: how it is constructed, used and dealt with in the sequential context. We analyse instances which ridicule the opponent and shift the serious modality of the setting. Although the target or the victim of irony is the opponent, in public discussion, the talk is always designed for an overhearing audience. In the analysed debates, irony is used as a defence in response to criticism and as an attack; in both cases it provides a resource for the participants to improve their own position against their opponents. In most cases, irony is easily recognisable, but owing to its ambiguity, it is sometimes difficult to assign a specific function to it. In a staged debate, this ambiguity is a resource which can be exploited for positive self-display. The recipient typically treats irony-implicative utterances literally, which is a means to ironise the original ironist who in his/her turn shifts back to the serious mode as if not having been ironic at all.

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