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Figurative Thought and Language, 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 ...
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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 ...
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Verbal irony use in personal blogs
Behaviour and Information Technology, 2013Blogs 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 Pexman, Alastair J Gill
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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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Contrast and assimilation in verbal irony
Journal of Pragmatics, 2002The 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 ...
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RDVI: A Retrieval–Detection Framework for Verbal Irony Detection
Electronics (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
Ruifeng Xu, Zhiyuan Wen, Keyang Ding
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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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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 factors that ...
Roger J. Kreuz, Alexander A. Johnson
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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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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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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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