Publications

Publication details [#64489]

Rivière, Elora, Madelyne Klein and Maud Champagne-Lavau. 2018. Using context and prosody in irony understanding: Variability amongst individuals. Journal of Pragmatics 138 : 165–172.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | interpretation | irony | prosody | understanding

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Both contextual incongruity and prosody may affect irony perception. Context appeared a stronger cue than prosody in evaluating irony. There are individual dissimilitudes in prosody employment to decode irony.