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A Pragmatic Study of Irony in Samuel Beckett’s Plays

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Applied Economics, Business and Development (ISAEBD 2011)

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Irony is one of the salient characteristics in Samuel Beckett’s plays. The paper attempts to apply post-Gricean theories of pragmatics to analyze both “echoic mention” and “allusional pretense” ironies in order to reveal the different subjects implied in Beckett’s plays. Through analysis, the paper finds that Beckett always used the ironic techniques to build his own unique narrative mode: making oneself alienate himself/herself from the past memories which are painful and fragmented.

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  1. School of Foreign Languages, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

    Lihua Huang

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  1. Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, Yuying Road No. 2, 213001, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

    Qingyuan Zhou

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Huang, L. (2011). A Pragmatic Study of Irony in Samuel Beckett’s Plays. In: Zhou, Q. (eds) Applied Economics, Business and Development. ISAEBD 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23023-3_4

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