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Attardo, Salvatore, Diana Boxer and Jodi Eisterhold. 2006. Reactions to irony in discourse: evidence for the least disruption principle. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (8) : 1239–1256.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
irony | reactive speech act, production of | sarcasm | spontaneous discourse | turn
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the entire ironical exchange in a corpus of spontaneous discourse, focusing specifically on responses to initial ironical turns.