The Dynamics of Conversation: Fixing the Force in Irony. A Case Study

Norms of Public Argument: A Speech Act Perspective

“…Speech acts are not only governed by norms, but also bring about or modify normative facts construed as commitments and rights of the interacting agents (Lance and Kukla 2013;Sbisà 2013Sbisà , 2019Ball 2014Ball , 2019Witek 2019), thereby changing the network of interpersonal normative relations (Heal 2013). The norm-oriented speech act-theoretic framework is used to cast new light on a variety of linguistic and social phenomena: the practice of meaning-making in discourse (Fetzer 2019); legal interpretation (Matczak 2019); verbal irony (Corredor 2019;Witek 2022b); meaningful silence (Kurzon 2019); and presumptions understood as speech acts (Corredor 2017;Witek 2021).…”