Reasonable Reconstruction of Socratic Irony in Public Discourse.
Reasonable reconstruction of public statements is an essential component of civil discourse especially in contentious political contexts. This essay addresses the problems posed by irony through the perspective of the speaker and the audience. I argue that existing attempts to systematize the identi...
| Publicado en: | Argumentation Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 101 - 122 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2022
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