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Publication details [#58903]

Giora, Rachel, Ofer Fein, Elad Livnat and Moshe Raphaely. 2014. Resonating with contextually inappropriate interpretations in production: The case of irony. Cognitive Linguistics 25 (3) : 443–455.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Relying on the graded salience hypothesis, this corpus analysis of Hebrew ironies confirms that, just as comprehenders (Giora et al. 2007), irony producers also activate and preserve salience-based though contextually improper utterance interpretations.