A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift's Irish Tracts ― A Relevance-theoretic Study

Maria Angeles Ruiz Moneva rreceived her PhD in 2003 and has been a lecturer in English linguistics and translation since 1994. She is currently working at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) as a tenured lecturer (Associate Professor). Her teaching interests focus on historical linguistics, translation and English for Specific Purposes (legal discourse), whilst her main research interests concern pragmatic approaches to irony and relevance theory. She has recently co-edited the volume New Trends in Translation and Cultural Identity with Micaela Munoz-Calvo and Carmen Buesa-Gomez (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).