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This article examines the use of irony/sarcasm against a corpus of spontaneous spoken data. Unlike previous studies on the subject, our analysis takes into account the entire ironical exchange. We focus particularly on responses to an initial ironical turn, taking into consideration the issue of multi-turn ironical exchanges and unacknowledged ironical utterances. We also consider the effect of sociolinguistic...
This study focuses on both the realisation and politeness perception of requests made by Turkish monolingual speakers and Turkish–German bilingual returnees. It investigates the possibility that the Turkish–German bilingual returnees’ pragmatic performance may have been affected by pragmatic transfer from German. As an initial step, a discourse completion test (DCT) was administered to Turkish monolinguals...
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