Publications

Publication details [#64488]

Giora, Rachel and Israela Becker. 2018. The Defaultness Hypothesis: A quantitative corpus-based study of non/default sarcasm and literalness production. Journal of Pragmatics 138 : 149–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | corpus analysis | interpretation | response | sarcasm

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

As to the Defaultness Hypothesis, when it comes to processing, solely defaultness counts. The results of this study supply converging corpus-based evidence for the Defaultness Hypothesis. Nondefault rather than default responses depend on cueing for their derivation.