Understanding Verbal Irony: Clues from Interpretation of Direct and Indirect Ironic Remarks

Autor/inn/en	Pexman, Penny M.; Whalen, Juanita M.; Green, Jill J.
Titel	Understanding Verbal Irony: Clues from Interpretation of Direct and Indirect Ironic Remarks
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 47 (2010) 3, S.237-261 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Figurative Language; Sociolinguistics; Interpersonal Communication; Verbal Communication; Attitudes; Context Effect; Computer Mediated Communication; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziolinguistik; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Computerkonferenz; Kanada
Abstract	Recently, irony researchers have emphasized that irony interpretation involves metarepresentational inferencing in order that the perceiver can determine whether the speaker's attitude is counterfactual to their statement. This research investigated whether the perception of irony also depends on the extent to which an ironic statement is suitably face-threatening in its particular context. Target statements were direct and indirect ironic remarks, and context conditions were modulated on 2 dimensions: context incongruity (strong vs. weak) and speaker-target relationship (close vs. distant). This study examined interpretations of ironic criticisms (Experiments 1 and 2) and ironic compliments (Experiment 3). Results showed evidence that suitable face-threat was important to a perception of irony: In some contexts (strongly incongruent context and close speaker-target relationships), irony was perceived more strongly for direct ironic remarks; and in other contexts (weakly incongruent context and distant speaker-target relationships), irony was perceived more strongly for indirect ironic remarks. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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