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Publication details [#31467]
Gibbs, Raymond W. and Herbert L. Colston. 2002. Are Irony and Metaphor Understood Differently ? Metaphor and Symbol 17 (1) : 57–80. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
ISBN
1092-6488
Annotation
The results of 4 experiments support the view that irony is understood differently than metaphor, partly because of the second-order metarepresentational reasoning which is required for inferring ironic messages.