Saying what you don't mean: Social influences on sarcastic language processing

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 186-189

  Katz, Albert N ^a   Blasko, Dawn G ^b   Kazmerski, Victoria A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Figurative language; Sarcasm; Social cultural factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244237886     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00304.x     Document Type: Review

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