Are Irony and Metaphor Understood Differently?

By Herbert L. Colston, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.. 2002

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Philosophy

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Edward F. McQuarrie
2. Barbara J. Phillips
3. Maud Champagne-Lavau
4. Emmanuel Stip
5. Ofer Fein
6. R. Giora
7. Gregory A. Bryant
8. Gerard Steen

In Social Psychology

1. Barbara J. Phillips
2. Edward F. McQuarrie
3. Maud Champagne-Lavau
4. Uri Hasson
5. Gregory A. Bryant
6. Caroline Willners
7. Carita Paradis

In Philosophy

1. R. Giora
2. Gregory A. Bryant

Citations in the corpus

• Beyond Visual Metaphor: A New Typology of Visual Rhetoric in Advertising (2004, background): “…that processing ironic ‘opposition’ utterances is cognitively more challenging than processing metaphorical ‘similarity’ utterances (Katz et al., 1998), because irony requires meta-representational reasoning (i.e. thought about thought) to draw a second-order inference (Colston and Gibbs, 2002).”
• Expecting Irony: Context Versus Salience-Based Effects (2007, background): “In other studies, ironies took longer to process than (salience-based) conventional metaphors (Colston & Gibbs, 2002; Pexman et al., 2000), or (salience-based) literal controls (Pexman et al., 2000).”
• Pragmatic and executive dysfunction in schizophrenia (2010, background): “Unlike the processing of indirect request, the processing of metaphor may not require taking into account the speaker’s intention and belief in order to reject the nonsensical literal meaning (Colston & Gibbs, 2002).”
• Prosodic Contrasts in Ironic Speech (2010, background): “Moreover, research suggests that metarepresentation is needed to understand verbal irony; and that it takes longer, on average, to process verbal irony than other figurative language, such as metaphor (Colston & Gibbs, 2002).”
• Does understanding negation entail affirmation?: An examination of negated metaphors (2006, background): “Metaphors are often used to express irony as they are well suited for conveying exaggeration, e.g., The train to Boston was a rocket (see Colston and Gibbs, 2002).”