Behind dark glasses: Irony as a strategy for indirect communication

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-95

  Anolli, Luigi ^a   Ciceri, Rita ^a   Infantino, Maria Giaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Indirect communication; Irony; Strategy communication; Theoretical mode

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; METAPHOR; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036481408     PISSN: 87567547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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