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Irony in Language Use and Communication
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston
[
Figurative Thought and Language
1] 2017
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previous
Subject index
A
absurdity
151–155, 158, 165–168, 171, 175
accidental, external ironies
52
acted speaker
146–147, 156–159, 170–171, 175
acted character
46
aesthetics of irony
71–72, 80
aesthetics
76, 80, 82
affirmation
140, 173, 219–221, 223–226, 228–230, 233–234
affirmative sarcasm
219–220, 222, 227–228, 230–232, 234
affirmatives
219, 221, 223, 225, 227, 234
allusional pretense
31–34, 141, 182
antonymy
22, 37, 201, 204
art
37, 61, 71, 79, 81
asymmetry of affect
96–97
attitude
20–21, 31, 33, 69, 72, 75–76, 78, 121–122, 148–149, 151–155, 157–158, 160, 165, 170–171, 174–175, 179, 181, 183, 185–187, 193, 195–196, 203, 208, 239, 257
export
157–158, 160–163, 165–171, 173
speaker’s attitude
179, 181, 183, 186, 193, 196, 257
attitude-wrapping
148, 153, 170–171, 174–175
attenuation of
151, 158, 166
authentic oral discourse
109
B
belief
44–45, 123, 138, 162–163, 165–166, 170–171, 183, 187, 194–197, 260
benign violation
43, 52–53
“benign violation theory”
53
bicoherence theory of situational irony
33, 49
bicoherent nature of ironic thinking
56
bilateral symmetricity
4, 14
bizarreness
151, 158, 160–162, 168–175
C
Career of Metaphor Theory
90
category/schema maintenance alarm
37
cognitive load
51
cognitive mechanisms
68, 69, 72, 77, 81, 121, 123, 201
cognitive model
192–193
cognitive operation
179, 184, 193, 196–197, 203, 207
inferential cognitive operation
190, 193, 197
cognitive science
68, 72, 76, 80
comic irony
19
comparison
28, 46, 88–89, 201, 206, 208–210, 212, 238, 248, 269, 273
comprehension (of figurative language)
137
conceptual analysis
63–64, 77, 80, 81
conceptual contiguity
204–205
conceptual metaphor
53, 20, 87
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT)
87, 90
confirmation biases
37
“conjoined antonymy”
19–20, 22, 37
constraint satisfaction framework
273
constraint satisfaction models
242
constructional aspects of irony
206
context
22, 32, 34, 38, 44, 46, 72–73, 96, 99, 111, 114, 116, 127–130, 136, 138–140, 146, 150, 156, 163, 175, 183–193, 195–197, 202–204, 207, 213, 219–220, 222–223, 226, 232, 238, 240–243, 245–247, 249, 251, 256–261, 263–265, 271–273
context generation technique
237
continuity question
70
contradiction
19–26, 28, 30–32, 34–35, 37–38, 62, 129, 137
contrast
23–28, 32–35, 61–62, 65, 74, 76, 79, 88–89, 92–98, 100, 104, 111, 114, 118, 129, 138, 145–149, 159–175, 179, 181, 183, 187–189, 193, 197, 201, 203–204, 209, 212, 222–223, 226, 230, 245, 247, 249, 251
contrast account
32
contrasting operation
179
controllability of mental states
51
conventional irony
99–102
conventionalization
34
cosmic irony
19, 28
criticism in irony
149–150, 154–158, 160–169, 170–175
critical irony
160, 165, 169–170
cultural meme
20
D
default
99–101, 127, 138–140, 170, 173, 219–228, 230–234, 264
defaultness
100–101, 103, 130, 138, 140, 219–236
Defaultness Hypothesis
100, 219–222, 226, 228, 231–234
deliberate irony
88, 97–102, 104
deliberate metaphor
90, 98
deliberateness
88, 90, 97–99, 101–102, 104
Direct Access View
101
disappointment
149, 164–166, 186, 188–189, 195
disbelief
155, 170, 187, 194
discourse history
127, 139
dramatic irony
19, 28, 40, 49, 65
E
echo
63, 65, 67, 72, 74, 76–77, 79, 93–94, 139, 146, 179, 181, 183–187, 189, 193, 195–197, 234, 257–258, 260, 271–273
echoic accounts
31, 34
echoic mention
23, 31, 33, 46, 63–67, 69, 72–77, 93, 234, 238, 242, 255, 257–259, 271–273
echoic mention theory
257–259, 271–273
echoic reminder
23, 31, 33–34, 273
echoic use
69, 93, 188
echoic utterance
127, 186, 188
ecological validity
237–239, 248
ecumenical approach to irony
61
ecumenical approach
61, 63, 77, 80–81
Ecumenical approaches
61–63, 65, 69–70, 77–81
ethics of irony
71–72, 74–75, 80
exaggeration
151–158, 160, 166–167, 170–171, 181, 189, 210
experimental approaches
237–238
explicature
194
eye-tracking
255, 257–259, 271, 273
F
fables
13
family resemblance
65, 80, 81
fictive elaboration
153–154, 159, 166, 168, 170–171, 174
Fields Medal
21–22, 26
figuration
201–202
figurative
20, 23, 38, 44–45, 66, 87–88, 97, 103, 110, 124, 127, 132, 137, 139–141, 179, 181–183, 188, 201, 203, 209, 213, 223, 255, 273
figurative language
20, 38, 44–45, 66, 87–88, 124, 137, 139–140, 255, 273
follow-up
127–128
G
Game theory
87
graded salience
32, 34, 99, 137, 221–222, 226, 242, 256–257, 259, 271–274
Graded Salience Hypothesis (GSH)
99, 221–222, 226, 242, 256–257, 259, 271–273
H
highlighting
36, 171, 187, 191, 196, 203, 205
historical irony
19, 49
(David) Hockney’s “Picture Emphasizing Stillness”
78
homonymy
109–112, 119–121
humor
27, 36–37, 43, 52–58, 62, 124–125, 242, 249
humorous experience
53
humorous violations
53
hyperbole
67, 69, 73, 80, 145, 147–148, 151–152, 156, 165–170, 173, 181, 189, 201–203, 205, 210–211, 240
fictively-elaborating hyperbole
147–159, 150, 152–156, 165–175
scalar hyperbole
151–152, 156, 169, 174
hyperbolic comparison
206, 210
I
idiom
131, 134, 138–139
imagined context
146, 156, 175
implicature
127–128, 194
implicit display theory of irony
33
inference
23, 27, 182, 188, 192, 202
intensification
166, 205, 207, 210, 212–213
intention to control a mental state
51
interpretations
53, 56, 63, 79, 130, 138, 140, 220–223, 225–228, 230, 233–234
ironic blame
87, 96–97
ironic constructions
32, 201, 206, 213
ironic praise
87, 96–97, 103
ironic pretence
145–148, 156–159, 164–165, 172–175
ironic restatement
31, 33
ironic tone of voice
45, 69
irony
19–24, 27–28, 30–44, 47, 48, 52, 56, 61–81, 87–88, 90–112, 114, 118, 121–125, 127–130, 137, 139, 145–158, 160, 162, 164–165, 168–171, 174–175, 179, 181–188, 193, 195–208, 210–213, 219, 234–245, 247–249, 251–255, 273
irony bias
101–104
irony chain
46
irony marker
91, 92, 97, 103
irony of fate
49, 65
“Isn’t it Ironic”
23
J
juxtaposed oppositionality
13
K
Kierkegaard Soren
74
L
language comprehension
23, 39, 137, 182
less-salient
222, 226
lexicalization
34
like
-construction
201, 206, 210–211, 213
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)
237, 243, 252
literalness
219–220, 227–228, 231–232, 234, 251
M
meanings
43, 61, 95, 99, 102, 109–110, 115, 121–123, 137, 203–204, 208, 220–223, 225–226, 230, 233, 256, 272
meaning inversion/reversal
80
mechanism question
70
mental control
50
mental space
156, 111
metaphor
20, 54–55, 71, 87–92, 97–101, 103–104, 124, 127–139, 147, 155–156, 179–183, 190–191, 203–206, 209–213, 220, 239–240
metarepresentation
118, 122, 127
metonymic irony
203, 205
metonymy
109, 116, 121, 141, 179–181, 191–192, 208, 210, 201–213
monitor
51, 263
N
natural kinds
67, 68, 76
negation
95, 105, 124, 138, 140, 202, 211, 220, 226, 234
negative sarcasm
219–221, 227–228, 230–232, 234
negative tension
242, 244, 258
negatives
219, 221, 223, 225, 227
Nobel Prize
26
nondefault
138, 219–228, 230–234
non-deliberate irony
88, 97–102, 104
non-deliberate metaphor
90
nonsalience
219–220, 228, 234
nonsalient
40, 219–223, 226, 233, 234
no-reply control group
237, 247
normative bias
69, 75
O
opposing scripts
201–202, 206
opposition
19–21, 28, 30, 35, 49, 62, 145, 201–208, 210, 212
overstatement
46, 151, 153, 188–189, 208
oxymoron
189
P
paradox
50, 55, 141, 189
parody
39, 66–67, 69
pastiche
39
performative irony
19, 36, 39
pictorial context
232
Plato’s
Meno
63
pleasure
140, 219, 221, 231–233
polysemy
109–112, 115–117, 121, 123, 204
Portuguese
109, 111–115, 118
European Portuguese
109, 111–113, 121
Brazilian Portuguese
109, 111–112, 119, 121
positivity biases
37
pragmatic insincerity
34, 182, 242, 258
Pragmatics
77
presupposition
139
pretence
110, 128–129, 145–148, 156, 159, 173–174
pretense
23, 30–34, 43, 46, 63, 65–67, 69, 72, 74–77, 79, 94, 98, 140–141, 179, 182–184, 234
Pretense Theory
65–67, 74, 94, 140–141, 179, 182
“principle of least disruption”
32
problem of promiscuous application
61–63, 70
process tree modeling
237
processing speed
219, 223, 228, 231
prosody
69
proverbs
223
psychological biases
37
“pulling a leg”
54
puns
53, 109–112, 121–124
Q
quasi-experimental approaches
237
quotation
127, 129, 131, 134
R
recontextualisation
127
regret
149, 164, 166–167
Relevance Theory
93–94, 124, 179, 181–183, 197
relevant inappropriateness
32, 34, 105, 182
restrictive approach
5, 61, 62, 69, 72, 76, 77, 80
romantic irony
19, 49
S
salience
32, 34, 49, 52, 99–100, 105, 128, 130, 137–138, 140, 205, 219–223, 226, 233, 235–234, 242, 256–257, 259, 271–273
salient
44, 51, 56, 137–138, 205, 209, 219–223, 226, 230, 233, 241–243, 256
sarcasm
43, 45–46, 53, 67, 71, 77, 87, 114, 121, 127–128, 130, 136, 145, 150, 155, 171–173, 219–222, 227–228, 230–232, 234, 238–244, 247, 255–259, 263–264, 271, 273
satire
39, 46
scenario
96, 119–122, 127, 129, 136–139, 147, 174, 179, 190, 192, 194–195, 197, 239, 246–247, 260–261, 263, 265
selective recall
37
“self-fulfilling prophesies”
52
Semantics
77
simile
89, 90, 156, 197, 201, 208, 209, 210–212
simulation
48, 181
sincerity
74–75
situational irony
19–23, 27–28, 30, 33–36, 38–39, 43, 48–49, 65–68, 70, 73, 80–81, 182
seven major types of situational irony
49
“situational irony depicted in images”
38
situation-internal ironies
52
slogan
127, 131–136, 138
Socrates
63, 71, 74
Socratic irony
49, 74
Spanish
109, 112–118, 122–123
Standard Pragmatic Model
99, 256–257, 259, 271, 273
stories
258–259
T
“The Gift of the Magi”
48
Theophrastus
71, 74
thought suppression
50, 52, 56, 71
three-dimensional model
87–90, 92, 98, 101, 103–105, 140–141
tickle
52
Trump Donald
71
“trumping”
24
U
understatement
30, 45–46, 61, 67, 73, 120, 188–189, 205, 208
uses of irony
27, 32
affiliative uses of irony
75
usefulness question
70
V
Vasarely Victor
79
verbal context
237–238
verbal irony
19–23, 30–39, 43–47, 56, 65, 70, 72–77, 79, 87–88, 90–92, 96–98, 103, 121, 124, 140–141, 145–146, 148, 182, 202–203, 206, 208, 212, 219, 237
classic definitions of verbal irony
45
social and emotional impact of verbal irony
46
Verbal Irony Procedure (VIP)
45, 239
verbal puns
109, 121
visual irony
78, 79
W
“white bear” experiments
50
Y
“yanking a chain”
54