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RDVI: A Retrieval–Detection Framework for Verbal Irony Detection

open access: yesElectronics (Switzerland), 2023
Verbal irony is a common form of expression used in daily communication, where the intended meaning is often opposite to the literal meaning. Accurately recognizing verbal irony is essential for any NLP application for which the understanding of the true
Zhiyuan Wen   +2 more
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The Impact of Emojis on Verbal Irony Comprehension in Computer-Mediated Communication: A Cross-Cultural Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
This study examines the influence of emojis on the comprehension of verbal irony in computer-mediated communication (CMC), with a focus on cross-cultural comparisons between Chinese and American participants. Verbal irony, often reliant on paralinguistic
Yiran Du
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Verbal Irony Processing

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 ...
S. Skalicky
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Verbal irony use in personal blogs

Behaviour and Information Technology, 2013
Blogs are a widely growing form of computer-mediated communication used to achieve various personal and professional communicative goals. In the present study, we examined previously posted entries from 71 regular bloggers. We examined the blogs for the use of five forms of verbal irony: hyperbole, understatement, rhetorical question, sarcasm and ...
Penny M Pexman
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Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo

Pragmatics & Cognition, 2023
Abstract 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.
Greta Mazzaggio   +2 more
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Asymmetries in the Use of Verbal Irony

open access: yesJournal of Language and Social Psychology, 2002
Three 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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An empirical study of verbal irony

open access: yes, 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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Contrast and assimilation in verbal irony

Journal of Pragmatics, 2002
The study investigated a potential link between patterns of perceptual/cognitive biasing effects and interpretation effects in figurative language. Following a recent line of psycholinguistic research that theoretically introduced and empirically verified a predictive relationship between perceptual contrast effects and the pragmatic functions of ...
exaly   +2 more sources

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