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The Cambridge handbook of irony and thought / edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., independent scholar, Herbert L. Colston, University of Alberta.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge handbooks in psychology.
- Cambridge handbooks in psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irony.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 428 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience; irony's impact (both personal and in social life); irony in linguistic communication; irony and affect, and irony in expressive contexts. Contributions come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, computer science, film and media studies, and music, making this a truly cross-disciplinary collection of benefit to a wide range of students and researchers.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Irony and Thought:The State of the Art
- References
- Part II The Scope of Irony
- 2 Kinds of Irony: A General Theory
- Ironic Situations and Their Representation
- Representing and Creating Irony
- Rethinking Dramatic Irony
- Engineering, Clarifying, Simplifying
- Communicative (Verbal) Irony
- Solipsistic Irony, Expressive Irony
- Communicative and Dramatic Irony Compared
- Communicative Irony and Romantic Irony
- Summary
- 3 Irony and Cognitive Operations
- Introduction
- Cognitive Operations in Cognitive Modeling
- Structuring Knowledge
- Cognitive Operations
- Echoing, Explicit Agreement, and Implicit Presumed Expectations
- The Interpretive Role of Echoing
- Structural Echoing
- Implicit Echoing
- Echoic Complexity
- Other Cognitive Operations Involved in Irony
- Conclusions
- Funding
- 4 The Varieties of Ironic Experience
- Ironic Language and Communication
- Detecting Ironic Situations
- Discovering Irony within Yourself
- Irony and Bodily Experience
- Ironic Performances
- Conclusion
- Part III Irony's Impact
- 5 Irony as Social Work: Opposition, Expectation Violation, and Contrast
- Irony: Oppositionality
- Irony: Violation of Expectations
- Irony: Contrast Effects
- The Sociality of Verbal Irony
- Social Motivations
- Irony: The Golden Social Worker
- Verbal Irony and Thought
- 6 Rorty, Irony, and Neoliberalism
- 7 Irony and Its Consequences in the Public Sphere
- The Public Sphere
- Irony and/in Critical Discourse Analysis
- Modeling Irony and Models of Irony
- The Perils and Pitfalls of Irony
- Irony: the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel?.
- Concluding Remarks
- Part IV Irony in Linguistic Communication
- 8 Constructions in Verbal Irony Production: The Case of Rhetorical Questions
- Rhetorical Questions
- Analysis
- Discussion and Concluding Remarks
- 9 Tracking the Ironical Eye: Eye Tracking Studies on Irony and Sarcasm
- Eye tracking
- Irony and Sarcasm
- Processing Times
- Contextual and Individual Influences
- Gaze Aversion during Irony
- 10 Inferring Irony Online
- Irony, Echo, and Dissociation
- Irony Online
- Irony and Contextual Information
- Encyclopedic Knowledge
- Specific Encyclopedic Knowledge on the Speaker
- Previous Utterances
- Speaker's Nonverbal Behavior
- Linguistic Cues
- Information Coming from the Physical Setting
- Contextual Sources Combined
- Concluding Remarks
- 11 Irony and Thought: Developmental Insights
- Developmental Insights
- Cognitive Processes Implicated in the Adult Literature
- The Parallel-Constraint-Satisfaction Framework
- New Findings Relevant to the Parallel-Constraint-Satisfaction Framework
- Future Directions
- 12 Vocal Strategies in Verbal Irony
- Vocal signals and indirect language
- Verbal Irony and the Voice
- Vocal Strategies
- Communicative Intent in Verbal Irony
- Vocal Strategies and Signal Design
- 13 Great Expectations and EPIC Fails: A Computational Perspective on Irony and Sarcasm
- Does Not Compute, Literally
- Tales of the Unexpected
- Detecting Sarcasm and Irony in Texts
- What to Expect When You're Expecting
- EPIC Successes
- Failing Gracefully
- Managing Expectations with Irony
- Framing an Ironic Observation
- Telegraphing an Ironic Intent
- A Giant Sarcastic Machine: What a Great Idea!
- References.
- Part V Irony, Affect, and Related Figures
- 14 Irony and Humor
- Polysemy of "Irony"
- Irony and Its Kin
- Sarcasm vs. Irony
- Irony and Teasing/Banter
- Irony and Parody
- Where Does the Humor in Irony Lie?
- Conclusions and Final Comments
- 15 Emotional Responses to Sarcasm
- Why Do We Use Sarcasm?
- The Tinge Hypothesis
- Irony Enhances Condemnation
- Examining Emotion "Online"
- Using Online Measures to Examine Changes in Emotional Responses over Time
- The Importance of Considering Individual Differences
- The Importance of Considering Cultural Differences
- Implications for Theoretical Accounts
- Paralinguistic Cues to Emotion
- 16 Irony, Exaggeration, and Hyperbole: No Embargo on the Cargo!
- Irony with Embedded Exaggeration: Overview of the Account
- More on the Main Claims
- The Nonexaggerative Case (1a)
- The Main Effect of the Embedded Exaggeration in (1b)
- An Additional Effect
- The Effect of the Embedded Exaggeration in (2b)
- Detecting and Reasoning about Affect
- Irony and Exaggeration Separately
- Ironies (Putting Aside Exaggeration)
- Traditional Definitions of Irony
- Oppositeness, and Vagueness of Speakers' Views
- The Range of Affect Types in Ironic Cargoes
- The Diverse Targets for Affect in Irony
- The Diverse Influences on Affect Cargo
- Why Be Ironic?
- Exaggerations (Putting Aside Irony)
- Affect Cargo of Exaggeration
- Import of Affect Cargo from Literal Use
- and Two Dimensions of Magnification
- Affect-Framed Description of Actual Intensity
- Hyperbole
- More on Ironic Embedded Exaggeration
- More Than an Ironicity Signal
- A Staged Solution Is No Good
- On Inclusion of the Embedded Exaggeration's Imported Affect Cargo in the Discrepancy.
- More on the Affectively Enriched Discrepancy
- Opposites Can Arise
- Further Discussion
- Irony and Thought
- "Positive" versus "Negative" Irony
- Possible Future Investigations
- Summary and Conclusions
- 17 Irony and Its Overlap with Hyperbole and Understatement
- Umbrella Term or Distinct Notions?
- Gricean Reasoning
- Defining Hyperbole and Understatement
- Evidence of Pragmatic Overlap
- Shared and Distinct Features
- Contrast and Expectations
- Indeterminacy
- Ironic Attitude
- Irony Via Understatement and Hyperbole
- 18 Irony and Satire
- Characteristics of Satire and Irony
- Satire and the Gricean View on Irony
- Satire and the Pretense Theory of Irony
- Satire and the Echoic Theory of Irony
- Variations in Satire and Irony
- 19 Hypocrisy and Situational Irony
- Accounts of Hypocrisy
- Philosophy
- Social Psychology
- Bicoherence Theory of Situational Irony
- Hypocrisy as Situational Irony
- Hypocrisies, Intentions, and Catch-22s
- Hypocrisies and Moral Judgments
- Verbal Irony
- Part VI Irony in Expressive, Nonlinguistic Media
- 20 Ironies in Film
- Types of Irony in Film
- Communicative (or Verbal) Irony in Film
- Combining Communicative and Dramatic Irony
- Ironies in Film?
- 21 An Ear for Irony
- Musicological Irony: Lyrical
- "Dear God" (XTC)
- "Personal Jesus" (Depeche Mode)
- Musicological Irony: Lyrical and Instrumental
- "Political Science" (Randy Newman)
- "Wordplay" (Jason Mraz)
- "My Favorite Things," Part I (John Coltrane)
- "My Favorite Things," Part II (Ariana Grande)
- Discography
- 22 Pictorial Irony and Sarcasm
- Ironic Situation Versus Ironic Expression
- Creating and Understanding Irony.
- The Evolutionary Basis to Irony and Sarcasm
- Pictorial Representation and the Brain
- Pictorial Irony without Words (and the Role of Experiential Expertise)
- So What Cues Can Even the Nonexpert Useto See Pictorial Ironic Intent?
- Is There Pictorial Sarcasm?
- Concluding Comments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108968676
- 1108968678
- 9781108968904
- 1108968902
- 9781108974004
- 1108974007
- OCLC:
- 1481795497
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