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Colston, Herbert L., ed. 2017. Irony in Language Use and Communication. (Figurative Thought and Language 1). John Benjamins.
Colston, Herbert L. 2008. A new look at common ground: memory, egocentrism, and joint meaning.
Colston, Herbert L. 2007. What figurative language development reveals about the mind.
Colston, Herbert L., ed. 2004. Figurative Language Comprehension. Social and Cultural Influences. Routledge.
Colston, Herbert L. 2004. Gender Differences in Verbal Irony Use. Metaphor and Symbol 19 (4) : 289–306.
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Contrast and assimilation in verbal irony. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (2) : 111–142.
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Pragmatic Justifications for Nonliteral Gratitude Acknowledgments: "Oh Sure, Anytime". Metaphor and Symbol 17 (3) : 205–226.
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Are Irony and Metaphor Understood Differently ? Metaphor and Symbol 17 (1) : 57–80.
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Figurative Language Development Research and Popular Children's Literature: Why We Should Know, "Where the Wild Things Are". Metaphor and Symbol 17 (1) : 27–43.
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. Review of $A proverb in mind: The cognitive science of proverbial wit and wisdom. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (5) : 627–638.
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. "Dewey defeats Truman". Interpreting ironic restatement. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 19 (1) : 46–65.
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. On necessary conditions for verbal irony comprehension. Pragmatics & Cognition 8 (2) : 277–324.
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. Contrast and pragmatics in figurative language: Anything understatement can do, irony can do better. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (11) : 1557–1583.
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. Contrast of Kind Versus Contrast of Magnitude: The Pragmatic Accomplishments of Irony and Hyperbole. Discourse Processes 30 (2) : 179–199.
Colston, Herbert L. 1999. "Not Good" Is "Bad", but "Not Bad" Is Not "Good": An Analysis of Three Accounts of Negation Asymmetry. Discourse Processes 28 (3) : 237–256.
Colston, Herbert L. 1997. "I've Never Seen Anything Like It": Overstatement, Understatement, and Irony. Metaphor and Symbol 12 (1) : 43–58.
Colston, Herbert L. 1997. Salting a Wound or Sugaring a Pill: The Pragmatic Functions of Ironic Criticism. Discourse Processes 23 (1) : 25–45.