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A pragmatic approach to metaphorical irony
1.0 Introduction: Our research paper is concerned with metaphorical irony, which falls within the domain of Pragmatics. Pragmatics is concerned with the appropriate use of sentences as utterances in the process of linguistic communication (lecture notes). Therefore, we need to draw a distinction between the terms "sentence" and "utterance" before we provide a working definition of Pragmatics, which is our domain of study. This constitutes one part of our review of the relevant literature....