Between irony and humor

Hirsch, Galia

doi:10.1075/pc.19.3.07hir

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“…After Kirschenbaum insists "Then we have to finish" (48), his co-host concludes with a still non-serious remark "Real left is China, right?" (49) Following Hirsch (2011aHirsch ( , 2011bHirsch ( , 2011c, we argue then that the non-serious keying of the interviewer's comment can be identified as both ironic and humorous, locating it between the two extremes (to which the typical cases belong), since we also perceive cues for the interpretation of the utterance as humorous. 6 The first cue for humor is an overlap between two opposing scripts (Raskin 1985) or incongruity (Attardo 1997) between the existing timeframe of the program and Kirschenbaum's unrealistic comment.…”

Section: Yaron London and Moti Kirschenbaum (Interviewers) With Haim mentioning

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Whose side are we on?

Hirsch¹

2022

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This research seeks to identify and analyze the reaction to irony in Israeli political news interviews, in view of the specific nature of this genre, which has been known to allow a certain level of adversarialness (Liebes et al. 2008; Blum-Kulka 1983; Weizman 2008; Clayman &Heritage 2002a and 2002b). Our intention was to examine whether the audience regards the use of irony as over-aggressive, and whether they believe interviewees regard it as such, in order to shed light on the potential consequences the use of indirect discourse patterns has for the interviewer. Based on Goffman’s (1981) notion of footing, and on the concept of positioning as defined by Weizman (2008: 16), we focused on the audience’s capacity to grasp the positioning and repositioning in the interaction as a possible influential factor in their reaction to the employment of irony. The research is based on two conceptual paradigms: Media studies and pragmatic studies of irony. The findings indicate that Israeli audiences tend to regard interviewers’ employment of irony in political interviews as slightly hostile, and as such it is viewed as a possible threat to interviewees’ face (Goffman 1967), but also as a legitimate and comprehensible tool, especially when the irony is accompanied by humor or mitigating non-verbal signs. Hence, the risk for the interviewer is not as great as we assumed. Accordingly, viewers also tended to judge interviewees’ conception of the employment of irony as only slightly adversarial, perhaps because they have assumed the interviewees’ attitude towards the interaction, identified with them and chosen their side.

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Section: Yaron London and Moti Kirschenbaum (Interviewers) With Haim mentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Theories concerning the differentiation between irony and humor will not be discussed here, for further details seeHirsch (2011a;2011b, 2011c.…”

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Whose side are we on?

Hirsch¹

2022

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“…The humor in the title and lead is the result of several features: exaggeration, absurdity, incongruity, a deviation from what is normally expected, and the insertion of a punch line (Raskin, 1985;Oring, 1989;Attardo, 1997Attardo, , 2001Veatch, 1998; for an integrative survey of theories of humor see Hirsch, 2011). The exaggeration is caused by the coupling of "the whole world is against us" and the paranoid "anti-Semites, they are everywhere."…”

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“…Some of the anti-Semitic slurs were translated into Hebrew by the reporters and presented as direct speech, mainly by the use of quotation marks. Despite the potential gravity of the subject matter, the framing -that is, the principles of organization which determine readers' perception of the text (Hirsch, 2011, based on Goffman, 1974) -is humorous.…”

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Celebrity anti-Semitism – A translation studies perspective

Weissbrod

2015

Language Sciences

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“…The ideas by Dascal and Weizman were taken up by Hirsch (2011), who applied them to humor. Typical cues for humor are discussed by Hirsch: script opposition (the violation of expectations), framing (jokes appear to have repeatable structure, usually a single scene terminating with a punch-line), word play and nonsense.…”

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Indirect reports as language games

Capone¹

2012

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In this chapter I deal with indirect reports in terms of language games. I try to make connections between the theory of language games and the theory of indirect reports, in the light of the issue of clues and cues. Indirect reports are based on an interplay of voices. The voice of the reporter must allow hearers to 'reconstruct' the voice of the reported speaker. Ideally, it must be possible to separate the reporter's voice from that of the reported speaker. When we analyze the language game of indirect reporting, we ideally want to establish which parts belong to the primary voice (the reported speaker's voice) and which parts belong to the reporter's voice. In this paper I apply considerations on language games by Dascal et al. (1996) and I explore the dialectics between abstract pragmatics principles and considerations about situated uses that are sensitive to cues and clues.

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Between irony and humor

Cited by 32 publications

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Celebrity anti-Semitism – A translation studies perspective

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