Online Workshop Proposal
Title: The Figure of Irony revisited
Saturday October 4th, 2025
Workshop organizer: Angeliki Athanasiadou
angath@enl.auth.gr | www.enl.auth.gr/tclr
Keynote speaker: Herbert L. Colston (University of Alberta)
Following previous successful theme sessions in ICLC 13 and ICLC 14, and publications of selected papers in Irony in Language Use and Communication 2017 (A. Athanasiadou and H. Colston (Eds.), J. Benjamins FTL1, and The Diversity of Irony 2020 (A. Athanasiadou and H. Colston (Eds.), CLR 65 Mouton de Gruyter, the figure of irony is revisited in its diversity as a fundamental and multifaceted mechanism.
