Verbal Irony
By C. Burgers, Margot van Mulken, Peter Jan Schellens. 2012
191 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/838686dfba2190947749b884c56a49620818f77e
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Citations in the corpus
- Sarcasm, Pretense, and The Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction ∗ (2012, background): “On the one hand, Sperber and Wilson (1981, Wilson and Sperber 1992, Sperber 1994, Wilson 2006) argue that irony echoes or mentions a proposition, in order to present it as an object of ridicule.”
- From humor recognition to irony detection: The figurative language of social media (2012, background): “Wilson and Sperber [43] assume that verbal irony must be understood as echoic, i.”
- Semi-Supervised Recognition of Sarcasm in Twitter and Amazon (2010, background): “Some philosophical, psychological and linguistic theories of irony and sarcasm are worth referencing as a theoretical framework: the constraints satisfaction theory (Utsumi, 1996; Katz, 2005), the role playing theory (Clark and Gerrig, 1984), the echoic mention framework (Wilson and Sperber, 1992) a”
- A multidimensional approach for detecting irony in Twitter (2013, background): “The pretense in each case alludes to, or echoes, an expectation that has been violated (cf. Clark and Gerrig 1984; Sperber and Wilson 1992), such as the expectation that others behave in a civil fashion, speak meaningfully and with clarity, or not consume every single speck of food on their plate.”