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Wirkungen verbaler Ironie

2000
In Kapitel 3.3 wurde mit der Pretense Theory, wenn auch nur am Rande, ein Ansatz erwahnt, der die Wirkung von Ironie vor einem speziellen Hintergrund beleuchtet. Wie gezeigt, gehen Clark und Gerrig (1984) davon aus, das Grice Ironie als eine spezielle Art der Vortauschung ansieht.
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Emotional Reactions to Verbal Irony

Discourse Processes, 2000
We report the findings of 3 studies looking at people's emotional reactions to different kinds of ironic language (e.g., irony, sarcasm, overstatement, understatement, satire, rhetorical questions, and nonironic statements). The first experiment instructed the participants to rate their own emotional reaction, the second to rate the emotional state of ...
John S. Leggitt, Raymond W. Gibbs
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4. Humor in verbal irony

2010
This chapter aims to show that irony in conversation may have a humorous effect as a result of the perception of the incompatibility or incongruity between two simultaneous ‘readings’ or interpretations, following current linguistic theories of verbal humor that submit that a humorous text is characterized by the simultaneous presence of two ...
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THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF VERBAL IRONY

jlse, 1997
Afin de critiquer et de rectifier la theorie standard de l'ironie verbale developpee par Quintilien, l'A. propose ici une etude detaillee de la structure semantique de cette figure rhetorique. D'une part, il montre que la theorie de Quintilien est trop vaste parce qu'elle peut s'appliquer a des locutions qui ne sont pas ironiques.
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Verbal Irony Against an Antagonist

Metaphor and Symbol, 1999
Some verbal irony can be conceived as strategy to handle an antagonist. The decision to attack or to appease, as in the case of ironic euphemism, depends on the social context of the power relationship between the speaker and the intended target or potential antagonist.
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The evaluative palette of verbal irony

2014
In this chapter we present the results of both a theoretical and empirical study on the evaluative character of verbal irony. Our main research concern was to provide evidence as to whether all cases of verbal irony are ‘critical’ in nature or not, both by means of theoretical reflection and by presenting the results of a survey whose questions were ...
Laura Alba-Juez, Salvatore Attardo
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The Production and Processing of Verbal Irony

Metaphor and Symbol, 2000
The articles in this issue of Metaphor and Symbol address the topic of verbal irony from 3 perspectives: adult comprehension and production, child comprehension, and neuropsychological underpinnings. These approaches are complementary and hold the promise of providing converging evidence for testing theories of verbal irony.
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What makes a verbal irony?

Abstract Verbal irony comprehension involves a set of interrelated phenomena. It is the aim of this chapter to present the development and validation processes of a verbal irony comprehension task. This study includes three pilot studies and was conducted according to psychometrics parameters, specifically through the ...
Sergio Duarte, Maity Siqueira
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An empirical study of verbal irony

2018
Human communication often involves the use of figurative language, such as verbal irony or sarcasm, where the speakers usually mean the opposite of what they say. In this dissertation, I address three problems regarding verbal irony: automatic identification of verbal irony and its characteristics from social media platforms, interpretation of verbal ...
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RDVI: A Retrieval–Detection Framework for Verbal Irony Detection

Electronics (Switzerland), 2023
Ruifeng Xu, Zhiyuan Wen, Keyang Ding
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