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Publication details [#56246]

Schellens, Peter Jan, Margot Van Mulken and Christian Burgers. 2012. Type of evaluation and marking of irony: The role of perceived complexity and comprehension. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (3) : 231–242.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | comprehension | evaluation | hyperbole | irony

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article discusses two experiments which show that textual features of irony (ironic evaluation type and irony markers – e.g., hyperbole, quotation marks) can affect comprehension, perceived complexity and attitudes towards the utterance and text.