ENANTIOSEMY IN DISCOURSE PRAGMATIC MECHANISMS OF IRONY AND IMPLICIT MEANING

Abstract

Enantiosemy - the coexistence of opposite meanings within a single lexical item, sits at the intersection of lexical semantics and pragmatics. Prior scholarship has examined the phenomenon chiefly from semantic and diachronic perspectives (Lyons, 1977; Klegr, 2013), while its realization in live discourse remains comparatively under-described