Phatic Communion and Small Talk in Fictional Dialogues

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Authors

URBANOVÁ Ludmila

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords phatic communion;small talk;fictional dialogues;irony;re-evaluation;paradox
Description The article deals with the use of phatic devices in fictional dialogues in the novel of Penelope Lively "Heat Wave". The author explains the contextual specification in which irony is created by means of phatic communion and small talk.
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