Irony in young speakers : oral versus written discourse

• Published in: Études romanes de Brno Vol. 45; no. 4
• Main Author: Claudia Revilla Gutiérrez
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Catalan; Spanish
• Published: Masaryk University 01.12.2024
• Subjects: colloquial conversation; irony; pragmatics
• ISSN: 1803-7399; 2336-4416
• DOI: 10.5817/ERB2024-4-8

Irony is a pragmatic phenomenon in which the sender expresses a dissociative attitude regarding the truthfulness of the content of the message itself, considering it false, ridiculous, or inappropriate in the context in which it appears. Therefore, it's a broad subject and its relevance is justified. Studies on this topic about Spanish are framed within the research by the Griale group. Additionally, although there are approaches such as those by Reus Boyd-Swan (2017), focused on ironic manifestations in written texts, or those by Ruiz Gurillo (2009), focused on irony in conversation, there is no evidence of investigations that compare both genres. Consequently, this article aims to analyze whether it is possible to find similar uses or if, on the contrary, speakers adapt irony to the medium in which they produce it. Similarly, this study will focus on a specific chronolect, young people.