Satire as a genre

Bibliographic Data

ID20484166
AuthorsMarcella Bertuccelli Papi (0000-0001-9982-0321, University of Pisa, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue3
Pages459-482
Publication date2018-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePragmatics & Cognition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0929-0907 • E-ISSN: 1569-9943
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/pc.18023.ber
OpenAlexW2999388039
LanguageEN
References cited29

Many scholars have claimed that satire is a genre. At the same time, however, it is also widely acknowledged that satire has changed over the centuries, that it has taken various forms and that it still appears in a variety of other genres. Far from being a drawback in identifying satire as a genre, I will claim that variability is a natural property of genres if the latter are conceived of as dynamic cognitive categories that emerge out of a complex interplay of heterogeneous factors which cluster differently under the effect of different contextual and cotextual attractors. I will assume that, in satire, these factors include a range of linguistic and rhetorical devices which interact in different ways to dynamically bring about specifically intended effects. I will further claim that understanding satire is a context-sensitive complex process which implies setting up and maintaining multiple mental representations, and drawing pragmatic inferences

Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence