Chapter 3. A Levinsonian account of irony in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of tables ix
5. List of figures xi
6. Notes on contributors xiii
7. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 2. Marked forms and indeterminate implicatures in Ernest Hemingway’s Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises 21
9. Chapter 3. A Levinsonian account of irony in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club 45
10. Chapter 4. What the /fʌk/? An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a scene from The Wire 73
11. Chapter 5. Misleading and relevance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night 93
12. Chapter 6. Lexical pragmatics in the context of structural parallelism 115
13. Chapter 7. “Lazy reading” and “half-formed things” 139
14. Chapter 8. Mapping the texture of the Berlin Wall 165
15. Chapter 9. James Hogg’s and Walter Scott’s Scottishness 191
16. Name index 215
17. Subject index 219