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1. SARCASTIC ‘LIKE’: A CASE STUDY IN THE INTERFACE OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS.

Author

Camp, Elisabeth and Hawthorne, John

Subjects
*CASE studies, *LIKE (The English word), *SEMANTICS, *IRONY, *SPEECH acts (Linguistics), *DIFFERENCES
Abstract

The article presents a case study on the use of the expression like, as a medium of sarcasm. It discusses two competing accounts of its semantic contributions, and examines data for weighing out the theories leading to the conclusion that like functions to mark an illocutionary force. Other details explored are the significant differences between the general phenomenon of sarcasm and the sarcastic use of like.

Published
2008
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