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Publication details [#31931]

Gibbs, Raymond W. and Edward J. O'Brien. 1991. Psychological aspects of irony understanding. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (6) : 523–530.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
interpretation | irony | psycholinguistics | psychology
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses psychological aspects of (and in particular five main conclusions on) how people understand ironic language and situations.