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In this paper, I analyze the construction of the trope of irony in a political interview, more specifically the interview with a Spanish politician on television in 2013. Its context is the emergence of the 15M, a citizen’s protest movement against the cuts imposed by the European Union and the Spanish Government. From a theoretical-methodological point of view, I adopt a holistic perspective, inspired by Halliday’s approach of jointly analysing the form-function relationship and White’s constructivism. I also review the different definitions and explanations of irony. After analysing the formal resources that construct irony, I give an account of the cognitive frameworks that are opposed in this discourse, and finally describe their narrative disposition and the communicative functions that those resources fulfill.

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Form-function dialectics in the analysis of irony in political discourse
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34, 527 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.19015.mor
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): Análisis crítico del discurso; constructivism; constructivismo; critical discourse analysis; discourses of social change; discurso politico; discursos de cambio social; discursos post-15M; entrevista política; funcionalismo; functionalism; irony; ironía; political discourse; political interview; post-15M discourses

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