000015480 001__ 15480 000015480 005__ 20150429092412.0 000015480 037__ $$aTAZ-TFG-2014-1177 000015480 041__ $$aeng 000015480 1001_ $$aNadela Puente, Sandra 000015480 24500 $$aAnalysis of ironical moments from Friends according to Relevance Theory 000015480 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza$$c2014 000015480 506__ $$aby-nc-sa$$bCreative Commons$$c3.0$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 000015480 500__ $$aResumen disponible también en Español 000015480 520__ $$aOne of the most ambitious aspirations in Pragmatics has always been to procure an explanation for the act of communication and the commands that rule our cognitive capacity in general, and the exceptional figures of speech, such as irony, in particular. The prevailing Relevance Theory by Sperber and Wilson, which is the theoretical framework that this paper aims to apply, has numerous and influential antecedents, of which Paul Grice’s Cooperative Principle is the most important. However, those theories have normally emphasized the theoretical dimension, since the examples shown by their authors have frequently been artificially conceived for fitting their purposes. This paper shows a more practical approach towards the selection and analysis of data by collecting ironical exchanges randomly extracted from the successful American sitcom Friends (Crane and Kauffman; 1994-2004) to carry out the analysis according to Sperber and Wilson’s theory. The analysis of the six heterogeneous extracts reveals that the entirety of the data fulfils the relevance theory’s requirements, so that all the ironical utterances can be interpreted with its help. This positive tendency to the observance of the theory in realistic data procures a hint of authenticity in the enforcement of Relevance Theory. 000015480 521__ $$aGraduado en Estudios Ingleses 000015480 540__ $$aDerechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons 000015480 6531_ $$arelevance theory 000015480 6531_ $$ateoría pertinencia 000015480 6531_ $$adan sperber 000015480 6531_ $$adeirdre wilson 000015480 6531_ $$apragmatics 000015480 6531_ $$apragmática 000015480 6531_ $$afriends 000015480 6531_ $$airony 000015480 700__ $$aVázquez Orta, Ignacio$$edir. 000015480 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bFilología Inglesa y Alemana$$cFilología Inglesa 000015480 8560_ $$f630889@celes.unizar.es 000015480 8564_ $$s168337$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/15480/files/TAZ-TFG-2014-1177.pdf$$yMemoria (eng)$$zMemoria (eng) 000015480 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:15480$$pdriver$$ptrabajos-fin-grado 000015480 950__ $$a 000015480 980__ $$aTAZ$$bTFG$$cFFYL