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The Verbal Irony Questionnaire: An Initial Approach to the Conceptualization and Measurement of Verbal Irony in High Intellectual Ability [PDF]
Journal of IntelligenceFigurative language is a complex construct related to intelligence. Psychology and psycholinguistics are trying to understand it from an interdisciplinary perspective, but studies are still scarce, methodologies are heterogeneous, and results are ...
Sylvia Sastre-Riba +4 more
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The importance of intonation for children’s understanding of verbal irony [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyVerbal irony refers to any utterance in which the speaker’s words mean something different from their intended meaning (e.g., “You’re really on top of things” said to a disorganized person). For children who are just learning to recognize verbal irony, a
Jordanna Smith, Melanie Glenwright
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On verbal and situational irony
Figurative Thought and Language, 2021 This chapter treats the notion of ironic echo as subsidiary to the broader notion of epistemic scenario, which applies to both verbal and situational irony. In verbal irony, the existence of an epistemic scenario takes the shape of a pretended agreement with someone’s beliefs, which can be materialized in agreement expressions of various kinds ...
FRANCISCO José Ruiz De Mendoza Ibáñez +1 more
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Cognitive processing of Chinese verbal irony: the role of reverse adjacency relations in reaction time and accuracy [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyTraditional theories of irony, such as Grice’s Standard Pragmatic Model and Sperber and Wilson’s echoic mention theory, inadequately explain culture-specific irony processing in Mandarin.
Mian Huang +3 more
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Addressing the Challenge of Verbal Irony: Getting Serious about Sarcasm Training
Languages, 2019 In verbal irony, the speaker’s intended meaning can be counterfactual to the literal meaning of their words. This form of figurative language can help speakers achieve a number of communicative aims, but also presents an interpretive challenge for ...
Penny M Pexman, Lorraine Reggin
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Verbal Irony in Informal Speech [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2018 Verbal irony is a constant companion to informal speech. People in their daily conversations resort to using ironic utterances quite too frequently for the purposes of invoking humor, criticism, ridicule and sometimes even harsh sarcasm.
Silvana Neshkovska
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The Verbal Irony found in English Novel “Twilight”
Humanis, 2023 Talking irony as one of the figures of speech has been commonly discussed not only in daily conversation but also in social media, contemporary fiction, and different works of literature.
Kadek Ayu Ekasani
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Understanding of ironic and literal utterances in 4–9-year-old typically developing children: role of age, narrative skills, emotion comprehension and executive functions [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyLanguage comprehension is essential to communication, yet understanding varies between literal meaning and verbal irony. While children grasp words' surface meanings, interpreting verbal irony requires them to consider context and infer the speaker's ...
Ekaterina Oshchepkova +2 more
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Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2012 According to Gibbs and Colston, one of the biggest challenges for irony research is the uncovering of the various ways in which irony is used in discourse. This article takes up a genre-based approach to deal with this research challenge. In a content analysis of ironic utterances from six written genres (commercial and noncommercial advertisements ...
Christian Burgers, Margot Van Mulken
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Where is the humor in verbal irony? [PDF]
Humor, 2014 AbstractIrony is often related to humor, both in spoken and written language. One possibility is that humor arises once people reconcile the incongruity between what speakers say and imply when using irony. Humor automatically emerges in these cases given the release of tension following a momentary sense of disparity.
Gregory A Bryant, Herbert L Colston
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