Publications
Colston, Herbert L., ed. 2017. Irony in Language Use and Communication. (Figurative Thought and Language 1). John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2004. Gender Differences in Verbal Irony Use. Metaphor and Symbol 19 (4) : 289–306. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Contrast and assimilation in verbal irony. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (2) : 111–142. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Pragmatic Justifications for Nonliteral Gratitude Acknowledgments: "Oh Sure, Anytime". Metaphor and Symbol 17 (3) : 205–226. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2002. Are Irony and Metaphor Understood Differently ? Metaphor and Symbol 17 (1) : 57–80. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. "Dewey defeats Truman". Interpreting ironic restatement. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 19 (1) : 46–65. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. On necessary conditions for verbal irony comprehension. Pragmatics & Cognition 8 (2) : 277–324. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Colston, Herbert L. 2000. Contrast of Kind Versus Contrast of Magnitude: The Pragmatic Accomplishments of Irony and Hyperbole. Discourse Processes 30 (2) : 179–199. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)