Regional variation in the use of Sarcasm

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-85

  Dress, Megan L ^a   Kreuz, Roger J ^a   Link, Kristen E ^b   Caucci, Gina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect; Irony; Pragmatics; Regional variation; Sarcasm

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849111318     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X07309512     Document Type: Article

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