Irony: Context and Salience.

Presents two experiments on test and graded salience account of irony processing. Methodology used in the experiments; Importance of context to irony comprehension; Function of irony biasing contexts to salient literal meaning; Function of familiar irony to both literal and ironic meanings; Functio...

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Publicado en:Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 241 - 258
Autores principales: Giora, Rachel, Fein, Ofer
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 1999
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Sumario:Presents two experiments on test and graded salience account of irony processing. Methodology used in the experiments; Importance of context to irony comprehension; Function of irony biasing contexts to salient literal meaning; Function of familiar irony to both literal and ironic meanings; Function of familiar irony to both salient literal and ironic meanings under interstimulus interval conditions.