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 12-dic-2024