Social and paralinguistic cues to sarcasm

Humor

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-22

  Caucci, Gina M ^a   Kreuz, Roger J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Common ground; Facial expression; Nonverbal communication; Paralinguistics; Sarcasm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858674374     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2012-0001     Document Type: Article

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