Irony, Quotation, and Other Forms of Staged Intertextuality : double or Contrastive Perspectivation in Conversation
Year: 1998
Type: report
Abstract: In this article I apply concepts of perspectivation (Graumann 1989, 1993, Kallmeyer/ Keim 1996, Sandig 1996), intertextuality and polyphonic voicing (Bakhtin 1981) to conversational irony, parody, and quotation. The concepts of perspectivation and polyphonic voicing can help to distinguish various forms of doubly-voiced speech from one another, basically forms of citation and irony. There is a critical debate over the 'mention-approach to irony' of Sperber& Wilson (1981) and Wilson & Sperber (1992), who do not satisfactorily distinguish between playful quotation and irony. 'Staged intertextuality' is proposed here as a higher-order concept for various ways of animating voices (in the sense of Goffman 1981). Many discourse analysts (Tannen 1984, Sperber & Wilson 1981, Wilson & Sperber 1992, Barbe 1995) understand quite diverse types of 'staged intertextuality' as irony, an approach which will be criticized here.
Source: KOPS (University of Konstanz)
Author: Helga Kotthoff
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2168022069