Verbal irony is understood to be a strategy that uses incongruity between reality and expectation. Since it intends to Kumon-Nakamura, et al. (1995) and Utsumi's (2000) implicit display theory are adopted. To investigate the interpretation of ironic utterances, Kreuz and Link (2002) canonical/non-canonical types of irony are identified. These types, in turn, are categorized according to the pragmatic strategies adopted form Gibbs (2000)
Verbal irony is understood to be a strategy that uses incongruity between reality and expectation. Since it intends to Kumon-Nakamura, et al. (1995) and Utsumi's (2000) implicit display theory are adopted. To investigate the interpretation of ironic utterances, Kreuz and Link (2002) canonical/non-canonical types of irony are identified. These types, in turn, are categorized according to the pragmatic strategies adopted form Gibbs (2000)
“…Bosco & Bucciarelli, 2008;Burgers, Van Mulken & Schellens, 2012a;Gibbs, 1986;Kreuz & Link, 2002). Eerder onderzoek laat zien dat er twee verschillende soorten formuleringseigenschappen van ironische uitingen kunnen worden onderscheiden, namelijk ironiefactoren en ironiemarkeerders (Attardo, 2000a;Burgers, Van Mulken & Schellens, 2012b).…”
Section: Hoe De Ironische Uiting Ironiebegrip Kan Beïnvloedenunclassified
“…In een experiment onderzochten Burgers et al (2012a) hoe taalgebruikers expliciet en impliciet evaluatieve ironische uitingen percipieerden. Proefpersonen kregen ingezonden brieven te lezen die met een expliciet of impliciet evaluatieve ironische uiting eindigden, of met een niet-ironische variant.…”
Section: Ironiefactorenunclassified
“…Burgers et al, 2012a;Lagerwerf, 2007;Van Mulken et al, 2011): een ironische uiting fungeert als een soort raadsel. Als de ontvanger dit raadsel uiteindelijk oplost, geeft dit plezier waardoor de kans groter is dat de lezer ook de boodschap accepteert.…”
Section: Communicatieve Doelen Van Ironieunclassified
“…Als de ontvanger dit raadsel uiteindelijk oplost, geeft dit plezier waardoor de kans groter is dat de lezer ook de boodschap accepteert. Burgers et al (2012a) geven empirische evidentie dat deze waardering voorspeld kan worden aan de hand van een omgekeerde U-curve: als de ironische uiting te eenvoudig is, werkt ze niet als een cognitieve prikkel en heeft ze geen effect op waardering. Als de ironische uiting te moeilijk is, zorgt dit voor irritatie en heeft de ironie ook geen positief effect op waardering.…”
Section: Communicatieve Doelen Van Ironieunclassified
Verbal irony has been studied in various academic disciplines such as linguistics, pragmatics, communication science and social psychology. However, due to the multidisciplinarity of the respective fields, each of these disciplines has developed its own irony literature. This paper
discusses the current state of affairs of research into comprehension and rhetorical effects of verbal irony, with an emphasis on pragmatic aspects of irony. We propose our model of the ironic spectrum based on predictors related to (1) the formulation of the ironic utterance, (2) the co-text
of the ironic utterance and (3) the context of the ironic utterance. This model integrates linguistic, pragmatic, communication-scientific and social-psychological evidence on the comprehension and effectiveness of verbal irony.
Verbal irony relies on contrast, that is, incongruity between the situational context and the ironic assertion. But is the degree of contrast related to the perceived humorousness of ironic comments? We answered this question by conducting two experiments. In the first experiment, participants were asked to read a list of sentence pairs (ironic or control) and judge the extent to which the meaning of the first sentence contrasted with that of the second. In the second experiment, participants were invited to rate the humorousness of ironic comments compared with their literal counterparts. Results showed that ironic remarks were rated as more contrasting and more humorous than their literal counterparts, but that humour only emerged from a moderate contrast.
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