El objetivo de esta tesis es proponer un análisis de la ironía basado en la Teoría de la Relevancia (Sperber y Wilson:1986/1995), para examinar su empleo como un recurso que permite la crítica político-social a través de ...

The sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri employs a very peculiar language, a mix of italian and dialects –not only his native sicilian but also, recently, the dialect from Genova. The writer himself talks about his decision ...

El objetivo de esta tesis es examinar la calidad del discurso intuitivamente creativo, caracterizando los procesos interpretativos y efectos cognitivos que le son propios, a partir de la observación de fuertes diferencias ...

Analyzing the mechanisms of literary interpretation from a pragmatic point of view means considering style as part of human communication. Not very much has been written about the how and why we perceive a text as literary. ...

In this article, I apply the tools of Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson) to the analysis of a satyric contemporary italian novel.

The notion of literature or poetry is based on the intuition that there is a qualitative difference between “literary” and other kinds of discourses. Only recently have philosophers of language and pragmaticists begun ...

Italian folk songs represent a very important historic document, even though (or just because) they are subjective ones, carying a strong perspective. In this article I will present and analyze three sicilian folk songs, ...