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Peer reviewedGibbs, Raymond W., Jr.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1995
Reports on the results of four experiments that show that people can recognize ironic meanings that were not intended, and that processing unintended irony can be done easily precisely because speakers' utterances, unbeknownst to them, create ironic situations. Discusses implications for psycholinguistic theories of irony comprehension and for…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Irony, Language Processing
