Automatic sarcasm detection is the task of predicting sarcasm in text. This is a crucial step to
sentiment analysis, considering prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing …

Sarcasm is a sophisticated form of irony widely used in social networks and microblogging
websites. It is usually used to convey implicit information within the message a person …

For a long time, figurative language was studied merely from linguistic perspectives, yet it
has lately captured the attention of other fields, such as natural language processing …

A large community of research has been developed in recent years to analyze social media
and social networks, with the aim of understanding, discovering insights, and exploiting the …

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape
hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of …

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces
students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language …

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 …

Most theorizing about linguistic communication assumes that conversation is a cooperative
enterprise—specifically, one in which parties contribute information to a joint project of …

Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions,
conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …