Verbal irony as implicit display of ironic environment: Distinguishing ironic utterances from nonirony

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1777-1806

  Utsumi, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Implicit display theory; Ironic environment; Nonliteral language; Prototype; Psychology of irony; Verbal irony

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034311221     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00116-2     Document Type: Article

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