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Giora, Rachel, Ofer Fein, Dafna Laadan, Joe Wolfson, Michal Zeituny, Ran Kidron, Ronie Kaufman and Ronit Shaham. 2007. Expecting Irony: Context Versus Salience-Based Effects. Metaphor and Symbol 22 (2) : 119–146.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This study suggests that the end-product interpretation of an utterance does not depend upon the salient (lexicalized and prominent) meanings of its components. In a test, the study compares salience-based (here, literal) interpretations and expectation-based (here, ironic) interpretations in contexts involving an irony expectation.