On verbal irony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4094417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deirdre Wilson (0000-0001-5570-9920), Dan Sperber (0000-0002-4066-3058) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 53-76 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lingua (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3841 • E-ISSN: 1872-6135 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0024-3841(92)90025-e |
| OpenAlex | W1975348552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 168 |
| References cited | 1 |
Autism · Comprehension · Developmental psychology · Humanities · Irony · Linguistics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology
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Dialogic construction of authority in Hebrew women’s writing from the 19th century
Dialogic representations of Britishness and Irishness
Cognition and Ideology in the Irony of the Batak Toba Language
Cleaning aunts and police uncles in action. Unveiling gender dynamics in Estonian compound words
“Wow, You’re Really the Champion of the ‘Resting Competition’, Huh?!”
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Extending the Field of Extended Language
Cultural semantics of the ‘salt’ word in Persian
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Non-canonical passives in Chinese
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension
What makes an awfully good oxymoron
‘Well, that’s just great!’
Validation of Hindi and English ironic sentences for bilingual comprehension research
Literal and metaphorical meaning
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“That’s not what he meant”
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Irony as a Means of Perception Through Communication Channels. Emotions, Attitude and IQ Related to Irony Across Gender
On the relation of irony, understatement, and litotes
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Propositional attitude, affective attitude and irony comprehension
Ironic criticisms and responses on Chinese social media
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Irony in Talk Among Friends
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A Possible Worlds Theory Account of Dramatic Irony in Fawlty Towers
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language
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Irony
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Irony in conversation
Revisiting the echoic account of verbal irony
Parliamentary face and the limits of sanctioned verbal aggression in the British House of Commons
Identidades falsas en Twitter
Academics vs. American scriptwriters vs. academics
Conventionality in irony development
“Isn't it ironic that…”
Exploiting stacked embeddings with LSTM for multilingual humor and irony detection
Relevance
Searching for some relevance answers to the problems raised by the translation of irony
Roots of miscommunication
Interpersonal communication and context accessibility in the interpretation of ironic utterances. A case study
Teasing at the White House
Who is the victim? When the addresser of the echoed utterance and the target of the irony differ
Turn-initial ki ‘because’-clauses as a rhetorical responsive practice in Hebrew Facebook comments
Modal particles in ironic utterances
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Neo-Gricean perspective on irony, deception, and humor vs. some insights from experimental studies
Ironic implicature strength and the test of explicit cancellability
Irony from a neo-Gricean perspective
Sarcastic ‘Like’
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A relevance-theoretic perspective on humorous irony and its failure
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Evaluation in translation
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Semántica y pragmática de la ironía verbal
Metaphor, hyperbole, and irony
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Is low-arousal laughter a reliable cue for irony? Individual differences in integrating speech and laughter meanings
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The discursive pattern ‘claim+ indirect quotation in quotation marks’
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| Unique citing works | 168 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,94 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 165 |