The use of irony and sarcasm has been proven to be a pervasive phenomenon in social
media posing a challenge to sentiment analysis systems. Such devices, in fact, can …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Findings from two experiments (run in Hebrew) argue in favor of the superiority of default,
preferred interpretations over non-default less favored counterparts, outshining degree of (a) …

In public political discourse, figurative expressions used by one participant are often
followed up and 'countered'by other participants through ironical and/or sarcastic allusions …

The primary goal of this paper is to tease out the concepts denoted by the etic and emic
labels “irony” and “sarcasm”(ie as they are viewed by linguists, and lay language users …

Results from 2 experiments support the view that, regardless of strength of contextual
expectation for utterance nonsalient (ironic) interpretation,(a) salience-based interpretations …

Theorists have debated whether our ability to understand sarcasm (pertaining here to verbal
irony) is principally determined by the context or by properties of the comment itself. The …

ABSTRACT The Optimal Innovation Hypothesis (Giora et al., 2004), following from the
Graded Salience Hypothesis (Giora, 2003), is being reviewed and revisited. The attempt is …

Studies investigating the effects of aging on nonliteral language processing have mainly
focused on one sensory modality, for example written vignettes. In the current study, we …