Verbal irony in the wild

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-309

  Bryant, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Indirect language; Laughter; Prosody; Spontaneous speech; Verbal Irony

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051605464     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.19.2.06bry     Document Type: Article

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