The pragmatics of verbal irony: Echo or pretence?
By Deirdre Wilson. 2006
339 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy
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Citations in the corpus
- Sarcasm, Pretense, and The Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction ∗ (2012, background): “Treating irony as a form of meaning substitution, they claim, makes it out to be a mysteriously inefficient means for communicating content that could more easily be expressed literally (Wilson 2006, 1724).”
- Harnessing Context Incongruity for Sarcasm Detection (2015, background): “According to Wilson (2006), sarcasm arises from situational disparity.”