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Leonor Ruiz Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega: Irony and humor: From pragmatics to discourse

  • Li Chengtuan

    Li Chengtuan is an Associate Professor at the School of English and Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, People’s Republic of China. He received his PhD at the same university. His research interest is in pragmatics and discourse analysis. He has published several articles on identity construction in Chinese.

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From the journal Intercultural Pragmatics

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Leonor Ruiz Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.). 2013. Irony and humor: From pragmatics to discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 270 pp. ISBN 978-9-0272-5636-2


About the author

Li Chengtuan

Li Chengtuan is an Associate Professor at the School of English and Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, People’s Republic of China. He received his PhD at the same university. His research interest is in pragmatics and discourse analysis. He has published several articles on identity construction in Chinese.

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Published in Print: 2015-11-1

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