Irony aptness

Humor

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-39

  Giora, Rachel ^a   Federman, Shani ^a   Kehat, Arnon ^a   Fein, Ofer ^a   Sabah, Hadas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Degree of irony; Explicitness; Irony aptness; Negation; Sophistication

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844529207     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 09331719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humr.2005.18.1.23     Document Type: Review

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