Joana Garmendia

Department of Basque Language and Communication
  • Department of Basque Language and Communication
    Associate Professor
  • ILCLI
    Associate Professor
University of the Basque Country
Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology
PhD, 2007
Areas of Specialization
Pragmatics
  • Irony
    Cambridge University Press. 2018.
    Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key work carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics, pragmatics, philosophy and literary studies, and from a variety of theoretical perspectives including Grice's approach, Sperber and Wilson's echoic account, and Clark and Gerrig's pretense theory. It looks at a number of uses of irony and explores how irony can be misundersto…Read more
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    Irony is critical
    Pragmatics and Cognition 18 (2): 397-421. 2010.
    Irony is acknowledged to be usually critical: the ironic speaker tends to exhibit an apparent positive attitude in order to communicate a negative valuation. The reverse is considered to be also possible though: the ironic speaker can praise by apparent blaming, although it seldom happens. This unbalance between the two sorts of ironic examples is the so-called asymmetry issue of irony. Here I shall deny the possibility of being ironic without criticizing — hence the asymmetry issue is an illusi…Read more
  • Revisiting Searle (review)
    Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 28 (3). 2009.
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    Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation (edited book)
    with Kepa Korta
    Center for the Study of Language and Inf. 2008.
    What is the relationship between words and reality? Which are the best ways to convince or persuade other people? Besides philosophy and grammar, ancient Greeks developed rhetoric to answer these questions. The twentieth-century brought the birth of semantics and pragmatics for a systematic study of linguistic meaning and linguistic acts. _Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation_ brings together the work of leading contemporary scholars approaching those issues from various perspectives—from the …Read more