Humour, Ironie — signification et usage

Simone Lecointre : « Humour, Ironie : signification et usage » This essay on pragmatic linguistics takes another look at Wittgenstein's theory of « Real Linguistic Transactions » by analysing concrete applications. Different uses of the contrastive structure « HUMOUR vs IRONY » are demonstrated by varying co- enonciators and discursive situations. Taken within a specific context, each co-enonciator selects its extra-linguistic signs and sets up its own model of referenciation creating new « language games » each time. These « language games » change word « grammar » by changing references, resulting in « intercomprehension ».Lecointre Simone. Humour, Ironie — signification et usage. In: Langue française, n°103, 1994. Le lexique : construire l'interprétation, sous la direction de Simone Lecointre et danielle Leeman. pp. 103-112