132454 20240311111225.0 doi 10.17684/i10A144en sideral 137546 ART-2019-137546 eng Ruiz-Moneva, María Angeles Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6865-7944 Irony, humour and culture in George Mikes’ How to Be a Brit: relevance-theoretical perspectives 2019 This paper aims to analyse the role played by humour and irony in the interpretation of George Mikes’ How to Be a Brit. It will be contended that these resources are important for the reader to understand and enjoy the meaning intended to be communicated by the author. Mikes must have sought to show the inconsistencies and incongruities of the British society and culture, under the perspective of an ‘alien’, of an outsider. Therefore, irony and humour become stylistic resources that guide the reader’s interpretation of the text. The framework applied will be relevance theory, a pragmatic approach which highlights the inferential processes involved in the understanding of a message. However, its views on culture have often been neglected or misunderstood. This paper will therefore seek to trace whether relevance theory as a whole, and concretely, its proposals concerning humour, irony and culture can help the reader to cope with the meaning of the work under analysis. It will be contended that a proper balance between the reader’s inferential derivation of the meaning conveyed by the speaker and his freedom to reach his own conclusions (which are in any case constrained by the text) helps to a better understanding and interpretation of the text. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 10 (2019), A144 [17 pp.] Diacronia (Iasi) Diacronia (Iasi) 2393-1140 226113 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132454/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2589979 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132454/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132454 articulos driver 2024-03-11-09:51:42 ARTICLE