<b><i>Zing Zing Bang Bang:</i></b>How Do You Know What She Really Meant. Gender Bias in Response to Irony: The Role of Who is Speaking to Whom

Milanowicz, Anna; Kałowski, Piotr

doi:10.1515/plc-2016-0014

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“…Analogously, “not meaning well when using irony” might be an element of a female stereotype. These results also suggest that men and women might use irony for different reasons (Milanowicz, 2013 ; Milanowicz and Kałowski, 2016 ; Kałowski, 2017 ).…”

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When Sugar-Coated Words Taste Dry: The Relationship between Gender, Anxiety, and Response to Irony

2017

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This article approaches the question of mocking compliments and ironic praise from an interactional gender perspective. A statement such as “You're a real genius!” could easily be interpreted as a literal compliment, as playful humor or as an offensive insult. We investigate this thin line in the use of irony among adult men and women. The research introduces an interactional approach to irony, through the lens of gender stereotype bias. The main question concerns the impact of individual differences and gender effect on the perception and production of ironic comments. Irony Processing Task (IPT), developed by Milanowicz (2016), was applied in order to study the production and perception of ironic criticism and ironic praise in adult males and females. It is a rare case of a study measuring the ability to create irony because, unlike most of known irony research, it is not a multiple choice test where participants are given the response options. The IPT was also used to assess the asymmetry of affect (humor vs. malice) and impact of gender effect in the perception of ironic comments. Results are analyzed in relation to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scores. The findings reveal the interactional relationship between gender and response to irony. Male responses were consistently more ironic than female's, across all experimental conditions, and female responses varied more. Both, men and women used more irony in response to male ironic criticism but female ironic praise. Anxiety proved to be a moderate predictor of irony comprehension and willingness to use irony. Data, collected in control and two gender stereotype activation conditions, also corroborates the assumption that the detection of compliments and the detection of criticism can be moderated by the attitude activation effect. The results are interpreted within the framework of linguistic intergroup bias (LIB) and natural selection strategies.

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2017

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“…Study 1 additionally did not provide participants with a definition of ironic enjoyment. Also, all its participants were psychology students, with a relatively large proportion of women, which limits conclusions given that gender differences in sense of irony have been found (Milanowicz & Kałowski, 2017).…”

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Ironically enjoyed music: An investigation of the unique self-regulatory value of irony as part of the enjoyment of music

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Giner‐Sorolla

2021

Psychology of Music

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Ironic enjoyment occurs when people enjoy music despite or because of it being evaluated as bad. Although initial qualitative results suggest that this phenomenon fulfills a variety of self-regulatory functions that are also found in enjoyed music, to date no research has experimentally tested how important these functions are in ironically enjoyed music, in comparison to naturally enjoyed music. In two between-subjects experiments, participants ( N = 216 and N = 143) were instructed to think back to a recent occasion in which they listened to a piece of music which they either enjoyed ironically or enjoyed naturally. They then answered questions on the effects this had on them (Studies 1 and 2) and on the subjective qualities of the music (Study 2). The results suggested that ironically enjoyed music had less effect on personal identification and on managing positive or negative moods and was also appreciated less and judged as less novel than naturally enjoyed music. Differences in mood-management functions were associated with lower levels of subjective qualities of ironically enjoyed music, especially appreciation. Novelty was especially related to positive mood enhancement for ironically enjoyed music. Participants mentioned humor as an additional function of ironically enjoyed music listening.

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“…We do not argue for the superiority or exhaustiveness of this approach, but rather, our review intends to summarize and foster research in this particular direction. & Lee 2004; Milanowicz & Kałowski, 2016) and age/developmental period (Banasik-Jemielniak, 2013;Banasik-Jemielniak, 2019;Banasik-Jemielniak & Bokus, 2019;Bosco & Bucciarelli, 2008;Harris & Pexman, 2003;Pexman et al, 2005;Recchia et al, 2010). Recently, emphasis is being placed on personality factors, for example, anxiety or shyness (Gucman, 2016;Milanowicz et al, 2017;Mewhort-Buist & Nilsen, 2017), cheerfulness (Bruntsch & Ruch, 2017a), or various dispositions towards humor (Bruntsch et al, 2016), among others (Kreuz & Johnson, 2020).…”

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“…However, it can also be hurtful and mean (Colston, 1997;Gucman, 2016;Milanowicz et al, 2017;Milanowicz & Kałowski, 2016;van Mulken et al, 2010). Finally, it is often a rhetorically attractive and clever form of speech (Attardo, 2000;Kreuz, 2020).…”

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Socio-cultural and individual factors in verbal irony use and understanding: What we know, what we don’t know, what we want to know

Banasik-Jemielniak

Kałowski

2022

rev commun res

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AA significant part of everyday verbal communication consists of nonliteral language, including irony (Gibbs 2000). Efficient irony use can serve a wide range of pragmatic goals, while deficits in irony comprehension can have negative social consequences. Whereas a large body of psycholinguistic research has been produced on irony use and understanding by adults, little attention has been paid to the socio-cultural characteristics of this phenomenon so far. Some individual factors that have been identified as correlates of irony use include personality of the speaker, gender, age, or speaking a second language. In this article, we argue that it is necessary to bring the aspects of socio-cultural variables and individual characteristics together in the further study of irony across national cultures. To this end, we present a narrative review of theoretical and quantitative empirical literature from the field of psycholinguistics on both national cultural and individual/psychological factors impacting the use and understanding of verbal irony in communication. Based on the review, we suggest a theoretical model that could guide future quantitative studies on irony use such that both contextual factors (including national cultural dimensions) and individual differences between the speakers are clearly defined and related to one another in terms of their influence.

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Zing Zing Bang Bang:How Do You Know What She Really Meant. Gender Bias in Response to Irony: The Role of Who is Speaking to Whom

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

When Sugar-Coated Words Taste Dry: The Relationship between Gender, Anxiety, and Response to Irony

When Sugar-Coated Words Taste Dry: The Relationship between Gender, Anxiety, and Response to Irony

Ironically enjoyed music: An investigation of the unique self-regulatory value of irony as part of the enjoyment of music

Socio-cultural and individual factors in verbal irony use and understanding: What we know, what we don’t know, what we want to know

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