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Publication details [#28421]

Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr., Jennifer E. O'Brien and Shelly Doolittle. 1995. Inferring meanings that are not intended: Speaker´s intentions and irony comprehension. Discourse Processes 20 (2) : 187–203.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inference | intention | irony | meaning | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study confirms that people can both easily produce and infer unintended irony.