Mimetic Evil: A Conceptual and Ethical Study.
Irony and sarcasm are common linguistic tropes. They are both based on falsehoods that the speaker pretends to be true. I briefly characterize their differences. A third trope exists that works when the relevant propositions are true - yet its rhetorical effect resembles irony and sarcasm, I call it...
| Published in: | Problems / Problemos Vol. 98; pp. 58 - 71 |
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Vilnius University
2020
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