La remise en question ironique dans la vision de Jankélévitch
Ironic questioning in Jankélévitch's vision

Author(s): Emilia Dolcu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Theory of Literature, Stylistics
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: irony; the serious; the playful; explicit meaning; implicitmeaning; linguistic markers;
Summary/Abstract: Many literary critics, philosophers and linguists have studied the concept of irony, but Jankélévitch not only devoted a specific book to it, he also placed the concept in a broader perspective which is at the same time philosophical, historical and literary. Even more, one of his major book, ‘The I Don’t Know What and AlmostNothing’, is the expression of an ironic relationship to the world. My aim is to make visible with Jankélévitch the internal structure of irony and the relation to reality that it establishes. I also intend to bring to light the functions that this figure of speech and thought fulfils. Through a thematic analysis of the work, ‘The I Don’t Know What and Almost Nothing’, I will seek to determine an ironic relationship to the world to see then by what phenomena and linguistic signals it is translated.

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