The "default" in our stars: Signposting non-defaultness in ironic discourse.
A non-default interpretation is required whenever speakers creatively depart from established norms and defaults. But effective speakers do not travel alone when they move away from default meanings to novel, nondefault destinations. Effective speakers bring their readers with them, sometimes by mak...
| Published in: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 175 - 185 |
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Jul-Sep2018
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