Resumen de Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony: Current research and compatibility
In this paper, several claims compatible with the relevance-theoretic view of irony comprehension are proposed, beyond the essential requirement of the identification of the speaker�s dissociative attitude and the location of a source of the echo. Firstly, a view of context accessibility in terms of �contextual sources� is described. Secondly, it will be argued that the variability of processing speed and mental effort involved in irony comprehension depend on the kind of activation of these sources during irony comprehension. Finally, a proposal of how ironical intention is spotted is provided, this time by applying a type of metarepresentation to the overall interpretive procedure for ironies: the one detecting inconsistencies in utterances and in the speaker�s intentions.
