Irony in language use and communication / edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Intro -- Irony in Language Use and Communication -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Editors and contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: The irony of irony -- Overview and contents -- Part I. Interdisciplinary perspectives on irony -- Part II. Irony, thought and (media) communication -- Part III. Approaches to verbal irony -- Part IV. Approaches to studying irony -- Lessons and conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I. Interdisciplinary perspectives on irony -- Chapter 1. Irony performance and perception: What underlies verbal, situational and other ironies? -- What makes irony? -- Past accounts of verbal and situational irony -- Taking stock and looking ahead -- On the nature of irony underpinnings -- Future directions for irony research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. How does irony arise in experience? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ironic language -- 3. Ironic situations -- 4. Ironic experience and thought suppression -- 5. Irony and benign bodily violations -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. In defense of an ecumenical approach to irony -- Introduction -- 1. The problem of promiscuous application -- 2. The restrictive-ecumenical continuum -- 3. The case for restrictivism -- 4. The inadequacy of restrictivism -- 5. The attractions of an ecumenical approach -- Conclusion: Is an ecumenical approach viable? -- References -- Part II. Irony, thought and (media) communication -- Chapter 4. Introducing a three-dimensional model of verbal irony: Irony in language, in thought, and in communication -- The three-dimensional model of metaphor -- Irony in language -- Irony in thought -- Irony in communication -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. On ironic puns in Portuguese authentic oral data: How does multiple meaning make irony work?

1. Introduction: What do we understand by irony from a Cognitive Linguistics point of view? -- 2. The first case study: Polysemy of 'Mercedes' in The Mercedes joke -- 3. The second case study (Brazilian Portuguese): Homonymy of 'cremado' in The 'cremado' joke -- 4. Final discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Extra information related to the corpus -- Chapter 6. Irony and sarcasm in follow-ups of metaphorical slogans -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphor and irony -- 3. The heart-of-Europe metaphor in British public discourse 1991-2016 -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Approaches to verbal irony -- Chapter 7. Irony, pretence and fictively-elaborating hyperbole -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assumptions about irony and hyperbole -- 3. More on pretence and drama in irony -- 4. The corners of a triangle: Acted speaker, drama's world and real world -- 5. The drama's world and fictively-elaborating hyperbole -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. Cognitive modeling and irony -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief overview of approaches -- 3. Echoing -- 4. Ironic echoing -- 5. Contrasting -- 6. Cognitive modeling -- 7. Modeling irony -- 8. Special cases of echoing operations involving irony -- 9. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9. Irony has a metonymic basis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbal irony -- 3. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part IV. Approaches to studying irony -- Chapter 10. Defaultness shines while affirmation pales: On idioms, sarcasm, and pleasure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Defaultness Hypothesis -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. The standard experimental approach to the study of irony: Let us not be hasty in throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Irony and the ecological discourse context in which it is found -- Sarcastic irony usage: Compared to what? -- Unpacking the effects of irony -- Concluding statements -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Investigating sarcasm comprehension using eye-tracking during reading: What are the roles of literality, familiarity, and echoic mention? -- Introduction -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Appendix A. Echo pre-test -- Appendix B. Familiarity pre-test -- Appendix C. Best fitting models and fixed-effects parameters -- Name index -- Subject index.

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