Travel blogs are becoming more and more common and so are the British and American expatriates, who, after a holiday “under the Tuscan sun”, decide to move to Italy for good and live the “Italian Dream”. This article summarizes the results of a case study which shows how irony and humour are commonly used in expatriates’ online travel journals as preferred rhetorical strategies to carry out several functions, in line with the hypotheses discussed in Attardo (2000; 2001a, 2001b).
Expats’ Talk: Humour and irony in an expatriate’s travel blog
CAPPELLI, GLORIA
2008-01-01
Abstract
Travel blogs are becoming more and more common and so are the British and American expatriates, who, after a holiday “under the Tuscan sun”, decide to move to Italy for good and live the “Italian Dream”. This article summarizes the results of a case study which shows how irony and humour are commonly used in expatriates’ online travel journals as preferred rhetorical strategies to carry out several functions, in line with the hypotheses discussed in Attardo (2000; 2001a, 2001b).File in questo prodotto:
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