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2022
Abstract Unlike metaphor and metonymy, irony has no “standardized” conceptual tools to rely on for its detection. The detection of irony proceeds entirely on-line; its comprehension does not rest on prior acquisition of conventional figures in the processes of language learning; it rests on our ability to establish, creatively and on-line, a dynamic ...
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Abstract Unlike metaphor and metonymy, irony has no “standardized” conceptual tools to rely on for its detection. The detection of irony proceeds entirely on-line; its comprehension does not rest on prior acquisition of conventional figures in the processes of language learning; it rests on our ability to establish, creatively and on-line, a dynamic ...
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Lingua, 1992
Some years ago, a referendum was held on whether Britain should enter the Common Market. There was a long campaign beforehand: television programmes were devoted to it; news magazines brought out special issues. At the height of the campaign, an issue of the satirical magazine Private Eye appeared.
Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber
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Some years ago, a referendum was held on whether Britain should enter the Common Market. There was a long campaign beforehand: television programmes were devoted to it; news magazines brought out special issues. At the height of the campaign, an issue of the satirical magazine Private Eye appeared.
Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber
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2023
Ironic language is a salient reminder that speakers of all languages do not always mean what they say. While ironic language has captured the attention of theorists and scholars for centuries, it is only since the 1980s that psycholinguistic methods have been employed to investigate how readers and hearers detect, process, and comprehend ironic ...
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Ironic language is a salient reminder that speakers of all languages do not always mean what they say. While ironic language has captured the attention of theorists and scholars for centuries, it is only since the 1980s that psycholinguistic methods have been employed to investigate how readers and hearers detect, process, and comprehend ironic ...
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The production of verbal irony
2020Abstract Although verbal irony has been a topic of interest for researchers studying language comprehension, the production of irony is also of great interest, since it highlights the situational, pragmatic, and even cultural ...
Roger J. Kreuz, Alexander A. Johnson
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Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo
Pragmatics & Cognition, 2023Abstract Speakers can express a critical, dissociative attitude by being ironic. According to the Echoic account of verbal irony, this attitude targets a proposition that echoes a thought attributed to someone other than the speaker herself at the present time.
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On the characteristics of verbal irony
Semiotica, 2015AbstractDuring the last forty years there have been a number of attempts to understand verbal irony in relation to specific kinds of speech acts (negating, echoing, pretending, alluding). This article argues that these theories can account for certain subsets of ironic phenomena but not others precisely because of their focus on substantive kinds of ...
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Asymmetries in the Use of Verbal Irony
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2002Three experiments assessed four variables that may affect verbal irony processing: people’s expectations of events, event outcome, evaluations of outcome, and shared common ground. Reading times and rating tasks were used to quantify the interaction of these factors. The failed expectation hypothesis predicts an interaction of expectation, outcome, and
Roger J. Kreuz, Kristen E. Link
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“Pure persuasion” and verbal irony
Southern Communication Journal, 1995Burke's notion of “pure persuasion” is that of a persuasion that paradoxically undercuts its own rhetorical effectiveness with regard to ordinary persuasive motives. This paper examines the utility of “pure persuasion” as a theoretical construct and a critical tool by applying it to the concept of verbal irony.
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Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2017
ABSTRACTIn three studies participants were asked to rate the degree of irony perceived in comments relating to five variations of a scenario, ranging from one pole to the opposite pole and passing through three in-between states. In study 1, the comments pertained to the polar extremes of a dimension, e.g.
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ABSTRACTIn three studies participants were asked to rate the degree of irony perceived in comments relating to five variations of a scenario, ranging from one pole to the opposite pole and passing through three in-between states. In study 1, the comments pertained to the polar extremes of a dimension, e.g.
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Abstract The aim of the chapter is to re-consider the cognitive and linguistic processes involved as to what makes verbal irony. Looking across its different functions, the chapter argues that it is the conceptual frames that constitute the accepted process in the production of verbal irony.
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