UN ANÁLISIS PRAGMÁTICO-SEMÁNTICO DE LA IRONÍA EN LOS ENSAYOS LITERARIOS DE OCTAVIO PAZ
A PRAGMATIC-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF IRONY IN OCTAVIO PAZ’S LITERARY ESSAYS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we analyze a few fragments of Octavio Paz’s literary essays. This analysis is aimed to propose a pragmatic-semantic study of specific utterances, which contains a study of irony as a linguistic argumentative instrument. The analysis is based on two main theories: on the one hand, the argumentation theory stated by Anscombre and Ducrot, and on the other hand, the relevance theory developed by Sperber and Wilson. The most important claims and concepts of each theory are presented in order to construct a suitable theoretical framework which allows us to describe different kinds of ironies and their argumentative and cognitive effects on readers.

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