Herbert L. Colston / Raymond W Gibbs Jr. (eds.)

Irony in Language and Thought

A Cognitive Science Reader
Herausgeber: Colston, Herbert L.; Gibbs Jr, Raymond W.

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Produktbeschreibung

Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed resource in the area of figurative language, this volume centers on a theme from cognitive science - that irony is a fundamental way of thinking about the human experience. The editors lend perspective in the form of opening and closing chapters, which enable readers to see how such works have furthered the field, as well as to inspire present and future scholars. Featured articles focus on the following topics: theories of irony, addressing primarily comprehension of its verbal form context in irony comprehension social functions of irony the development of irony understanding situational irony. Scholars and students in psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, anthropology, artificial intelligence, art, and communications will consider this book an excellent resource. It serves as an ideal supplement in courses that present major ideas in language and thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 618
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 882g
• ISBN-13: 9780805860627
• ISBN-10: 0805860622
• Artikelnr.: 21422852

Autorenporträt

Raymond W. Gibbs Jr, Herbert L. Colston

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction. H.L. Colston
R.W. Gibbs
A Brief History of Irony. Part II: Theories of Irony. H. Clark
R. Gerrig
On the Pretense Theory of Irony. D. Wilson
D. Sperber
On Verbal Irony. S. Kumon-Nakamura
S. Glucksberg
M. Brown
How About Another Piece of Pie: The Allusional Pretense Theory of Discourse Irony. H.L. Colston
On Necessary Conditions for Verbal Irony Comprehension. S. Attardo
Irony as Relevant Inappropriateness. Part III: Context in Irony Comprehension. R.W. Gibbs
On the Psycholinguistics of Sarcasm. R. Giora
O. Fein
Irony: Context and Salience. S. McDonald
Neuropsychological Studies of Sarcasm. P. Pexman
T. Ferretti
A. Katz
Discourse Factors That Influence On-line Reading of Metaphor and Irony. J. Schwoebel
S. Dews
E. Winner
K. Srinivas
Obligatory Processing of Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances: Further Evidence. C. Curco
Irony: Negation
Echo
and Metarepresentation. Part IV: The Social Functions of Irony. S. Dews
J. Kaplan
E. Winner
Why Not Say It Directly? The Social Functions of Irony. H.L. Colston
Salting a Wound or Sugaring a Pill: The Pragmatic Functions of Ironic Criticism. R.W. Gibbs
Irony in Talk Among Friends. L. Anolli
R. Ciceri
M. Infantino
From "Blame by Praise" to "Praise by Blame": Analysis of Vocal Patterns in Ironic Communication. H. Kotthoff
Responding to Irony in Different Contexts: On Cognition in Communication. Part V: Development of Irony Understanding. M. Creusere
A Developmental Test of Theoretical Perspectives on the Understanding of Verbal Irony: Children's Recognition of Allusion and Pragmatic Insincerity. J. Hancock
P. Dunham
K. Purdy
Children's Comprehension of Critical and Complimentary Forms of Verbal Irony. M. Glenwright
P. Pexman
Children's Perceptions of the Social Functions of Irony. Part VI: Situational Irony. J. Lucariello
Situational Irony: A Concept of Events Gone Awry. A. Utsumi
Verbal Irony as Implicit Display of Ironic Environment: Distinguishing Ironic Utterances From Nonirony. C. Shelley
The Bicoherence Theory of Situational Irony. Part VII: Conclusion. R.W. Gibbs
H.L. Colston
The Future of Irony Studies.