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Publication details [#64495]

Livnat, Zohar and Gonen Dori-Hacohen. 2018. Indexing membership via responses to irony: Communication competence in Israeli radio call-in shows. Language & Communication 58 : 62–79.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Responses to irony are indicative of a speaker's communicative competence in a particular speech community. They index membership in the community of radio call-in program. Regular callers showed that they were more agile in responding to irony. These prevalent abilities are due to their knowledge of the program.