Publications
Publication details [#60093]
Escandell-Vidal, Victoria, Pilar Prieto and Santiago González-Fuente. 2015. Gestural codas pave the way to the understanding of verbal irony. Journal of Pragmatics 90 : 26–47. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study demonstrates that ironic utterances differ from directly preceding non-ironic utterances, both in terms of prosody and gesture. The production of ‘gestural codas’ (visual information) after ironic sentences constitutes a crucial factor in the recognition of the speaker's ironic intention.