Contrast and pragmatics in figurative language: Anything understatement can do, irony can do better

By Herbert L. Colston, Jennifer E. O'Brien. 2000

162 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/146ab13f27fdaf7139dcca416208db16b716c07a

Citations in the corpus

• The landscape of impoliteness research (2015, unknown): “…effects it brings about, pondering on whether it magnifies or mitigates negative evaluation, with the findings being diverse, admittedly because of the different methodologies and examples the researchers use (e.g., Kumon-Nakamura et al. 1995; Colston and O’Brien 2000; see Dynel 2015b forthcoming).”