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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Published in:	Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 241 - 258
Main Authors:	Giora, Rachel, Fein, Ofer
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd 1999
Subjects:	Irony Comprehension Context effects (Psychology)
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Summary:	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.