RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
T1 "A gricean and multimodal study of irony: verbal and non-verbal realizations in Friends"
A1 García Puertas, Lucía
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Irony
K1 Humor
K1 Conversational maxims
K1 Implicit meaning
K1 Grice’s cooperative principle
K1 Sitcom series
K1 Friends
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This dissertation explores the use of irony from a pragmatic point of view, in particular following Grice’s implicit meaning theory, which will enable us to create comedy in a series like Friends. The aim of this work is to explore and identify how irony is verbally and multimodally created, including its origin, how it is constructed, and the different types according to H.P. Grice. Specifically, the dissertation studies how both verbal and non-verbal conversational strategies can support and develop irony. Verbal construction of irony will be explored by relying on conversational strategies and the explanation of Gricean maxims. This will involve not only looking at the differences between them, but also at how and why they are flouted. The study of non-verbal marks of irony will focus on the identification of gestures and movements which may emphasize ironic meaning. The qualitative analysis included in this dissertation is preceded by a quantitative approximation to the number of ironic utterances found in the first twelve episodes from the first season of the series Friends. The results will show which maxims are most often flouted, which episodes contained more ironic utterances and which gestures and movements were most common when irony was produced throughout our corpus. Results in this study show the prominence of the quality maxim in creating irony. Likewise, irony and some of the movements produced were consistent enough as to form patterns.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58757
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58757
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-dic-2024