Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader

by Gibbs Jr.; Raymond W

• ISBN13: 9780805860627
• ISBN10: 0805860622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-05-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

We have witnessed an explosion of research over the past twenty years in the cognitive sciences on figurative language. While there are many books on the topic of metaphor, there is no collection in one volume of the theories and empirical research on irony. This interdisciplinary reader fills that void.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction
A Brief History of Irony	p. 3
Theories of Irony
On the Pretense Theory of Irony	p. 25
On Verbal Irony	p. 35
How About Another Piece of Pie: The Allusional Pretense Theory of Discourse Irony	p. 57
On Necessary Conditions for Verbal Irony Comprehension	p. 97
Irony As Relevant Inappropriateness	p. 135
Context in Irony Comprehension
On the Psycholinguistics of Sarcasm	p. 173
Irony: Context and Salience	p. 201
Neuropsychological Studies of Sarcasm	p. 217
Discourse Factors That Influence Online Reading of Metaphor and Irony	p. 231
Obligatory Processing of Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances: Further Evidence	p. 253
Irony: Negation, Echo, and Metarepresentation	p. 269
The Social Functions of Irony
Why Not Say It Directly? The Social Functions of Irony	p. 297
Salting a Wound or Sugaring a Pill: The Pragmatic Functions of Ironic Criticism	p. 319
Irony in Talk Among Friends	p. 339
From "Blame by Praise" to "Praise by Blame:" Analysis of Vocal Patterns in Ironic Communication	p. 361
Responding to Irony in Different Contexts: On Cognition in Conversation	p. 381
Development of Irony Understanding
A Developmental Test of Theoretical Perspectives on the Understanding of Verbal Irony: Children's Recognition of Allusion and Pragmatic Insincerity	p. 409
Children's Comprehension of Critical and Complimentary Forms of Verbal Irony	p. 425
Children's Perceptions of the Social Functions of Verbal Irony	p. 447
Situational Irony: A Concept of Events Gone Awry
Situational Irony: A Concept of Events Gone Awry	p. 467
Verbal Irony As Implicit Display of Ironic Environment: Distinguishing Ironic Utterances From Nonirony	p. 499
The Bicoherence Theory of Situational Irony	p. 531
Conclusion
The Future of Irony Studies	p. 581
Author Index	p. 595
Subject Index	p. 605
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