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 1899, French poet Alcanter de Brahm proposed that ironists should use a specific
punctuation mark known as the ironic sign to guide their readers explicitly in an ironic …

Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the
consequences of memetic communication, the causes of these consequences, and what …

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 …

This paper provides new tools for philosophical argument analysis and fresh empirical
foundations for 'critical'ordinary language philosophy. Language comprehension routinely …

Findings from five experiments support the view that negation generates sarcastic utterance-
interpretations by default. When presented in isolation, novel negative constructions …

Intercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the
globalized world: how do people interact with each other in a language other than their …

Distinct theoretical proposals have described how communicative constraints (contextual
biases, speaker identity) impact verbal irony processing. Modular models assume that social …

Pragmatic inferences are essential to understanding speakers' communicative intentions. I
here revisit the typology of pragmatic inferences and minimally revise it by incorporating into …