FLEABAG: THE USE OF IRONY AS A FACE-SAVING STRATEGY

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  • Déborah de Assis Tôrres UFPE
  • Larissa Carla Alves da Silva UFPE

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fleabag, ironia, face, AAF, preservação

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the use of irony as a “Face-threatening Acts (FTA) minimizing strategy” to preserve the face of the main character and narrator of the TV series Fleabag (2016) by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Two extracts were selected from the first season and they are analyzed in light of the concept of irony by Grice (1991) as the flouting of the maxim of quality and the face-saving model of the politeness theory by Brown and Levinson (1987). The samples observed illustrate the use of the mentioned figured speech as a way of maintaining the face of the protagonist by preventing her from exposing the traumas regarding the death of her mother and best friend. Therefore, while controlling the narrative by directly addressing the audience, the main character attempts to manipulate her discourse through the ironic use of language as a way of preserving herself from publicly revealing the chaos of her real emotional status. 

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2024-02-02 — aktualisiert am 2024-05-08

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