Joana Garmendia

Biography

Joana Garmendia (Anoeta, Basque Country) obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, with a dissertation on the pragmatics of irony. She has been (2008-2010) a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Language and Information's (CSLI) Pragmatics Project (Stanford University); then (2010-2013) a Juan de la Cierva researcher at the ILCLI; and she is now (2013-present) a lecturer at the Department of Basque Language and Communication of the University of the Basque Country. Her publications have been devoted to those very fields: "Irony is Critical", Pragmatics and Cognition (2010); "She is (not) a fine friend. "Saying" and Criticism in irony", Intercultural Pragmatics (2011); "A (neo)Gricean account of irony: An answer to Relevance Theory", International Review of Pragmatics; "The Clash: humor and critical attitude in verbal irony", International Journal of Humor Studies. She has been the assistant secretary of GOGOA — the ILCLI journal, which is devoted to the study of language, knowledge, communication, and action — from 2002 to 2007, and again from 2010 to present. She is currently a member of the research group on Language, Action, and Thought

Research Interest

Her main research interests include irony, non-literal speech, fictional discourse, and the semantics and pragmatics of Basque.