Understanding Irony in Literary Texts: A Cognitive Approach

IF 0.5 4区文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN

SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.3138/seminar.58.1.5

S. Richter, H. Leuthold

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Abstract:Cognitive approaches are particularly appealing when it comes to phenomena that can be adequately described only when their mental processing is taken into account. The phenomenon of irony is one of them. While there has been a plethora of semantic and structural analytic approaches in literary studies and linguistics that have focused on irony, the question is to what extent irony is already inherent in the texts themselves, to what extent it is only recognizable from contexts, and whether we recognize irony as such equally at all.In this article, we combine approaches from literary studies, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics in a corpus-based study. We ask whether irony is recognizable from certain textual features, such as genre or style. To determine this, we undertook a questionnaire study that indeed supports the conclusion that it is. It is the goal of the article to stimulate further contributions of this kind in order to explore the potential of a cognitive approach for the processing of irony in literary texts, providing a sound basis for future neuro-aesthetic investigations.

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SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN-

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