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Publication details [#5018]
Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr. and Herbert L. Colston. 2007. Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.. 624 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
ISBN
0805860622; 0805860627
Abstract
'Irony in Language and Thought' assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed resource in the area of figurative language, this volume centers on a theme from cognitive science - that irony is a fundamental way of thinking about the human experience. The editors lend perspective in the form of opening and closing chapters, which enable readers to see how such works have furthered the field, as well as to inspire present and future scholars.Featured arti s on the following topics:
- theories of irony, addressing primarily comprehension of its verbal form;
- context in irony comprehension;
- social functions of irony;
- the development of irony understanding; and
- situational irony.
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