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Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives
Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett
[Figurative Thought and Language 10] 2020
► pp. 263–296

The production of verbal irony

How to be an ironist

| University of Memphis
| University of Memphis
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 affect language use. Issues of production and interpretation have, if anything, become even more salient with the rise of email, texting, and social media. Even though such mediums are conversationally impoverished, new conventions and nonliteral markers have evolved to allow verbal irony to both survive and flourish online. This chapter will provide a review and an assessment of the current state of the literature on these topics.
Keywords: irony, discourse, pragmatics, computer-mediated communication, sentiment analysis
Published online: 17 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.10.10kre
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