TY  - CHAP
AU  - Serrano Losada, Mario
A4  - Marín Arrese, Juana Isabel
A4  - Hidalgo Downing, Laura
A4  - Zamorano Mansilla, Juan Rafael
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.3726/b20233
SN  - 978-3-0343-4372-5 (Print)
SN  - 978-3-0343-4634-4 (E-PDF)
SN  - 978-3-0343-4635-1 (E-PUB)
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/136949
AB  - ABSTRACT: The present chapter focuses on the pragmatic parenthetical «spoiler alert», which is used as a humorous, ironic device to underscore the obvious nature of a statement (e.g., «Four orcas chase a penguin and spoiler alert, it doesn’t end...
LA  - eng
M2  - 479
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Spoiler alert
KW  - Pragmatic parentheticals
KW  - Language change
KW  - Semantic shift
KW  - Humour
KW  - Cooptation
KW  - Mirativity
KW  - Evidentiality
KW  - Assumption
TI  - «Spoiler Alert», This is no Spoiler : Mirativity, Assumption and Irony at Play
TY  - book part
ER  -