Two Cues for Verbal Irony: Hyperbole and the Ironic Tone of Voice

Kreuz, Roger J.; Roberts, Richard M.

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“…These findings confirm earlier research that found a close connection between hyperbole and the use of irony (e.g., Kreuz & Roberts 1995).…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Kreuz & Roberts 1995). In other words, an ironic utterance that is marked with a hyperbole may be easier to identify as ironic than an ironic utterance that is not marked at all.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Various scholars have identified many different types of irony markers that an author can use to mark such an utterance (e.g., Attardo 2000a;Kreuz 1996;Muecke 1978;Seto 1998). In written communication, these markers can roughly be classified into four different categories: (1) tropes, such as hyperboles (e.g., Kreuz & Roberts 1995) and rhetorical questions (e.g., Muecke 1978), (2) schematic markers such as repetition (e.g., Muecke 1978) and a change of register (e.g., Haiman 1998), (3) morpho-syntactic markers such as exclamations (e.g., Seto 1998) and tag questions (e.g., Kreuz A r t i c l e i n p r e s s 1996) and (4) typographic markers such as quotation marks (e.g., Attardo 2001) and emoticons (e.g., Kreuz 1996; for a more detailed explanation, see Burgers 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that the irony marker of hyperboles (cf. Kreuz & Roberts 1995) could be extended to the domain of co-textual markers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The use of co-textual irony markers in written discourse

Burgers¹,

Mulken

Schellens

2013

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Authors of written texts may mark the use of verbal irony in a variety of ways. One possibility to do so is the use of so-called co-textual markers of irony (i.e., support strategies that open up a non-serious frame). This study aims to classify and categorize these co-textual irony markers. A content analysis of 2,042 co-textual utterances of irony across four text genres (advertisements, newspaper columns, book and film reviews, and letters to the editor) shows that three categories of support strategies could be identified: other ironic utterances, tropes and mood markers. The use of irony support strategies was positively related to the genre of newspaper columns: columns used more ironic utterances and tropes as irony support strategies than the other genres in the corpus.

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“…These findings confirm earlier research that found a close connection between hyperbole and the use of irony (e.g., Kreuz & Roberts 1995).…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Kreuz & Roberts 1995). In other words, an ironic utterance that is marked with a hyperbole may be easier to identify as ironic than an ironic utterance that is not marked at all.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that the irony marker of hyperboles (cf. Kreuz & Roberts 1995) could be extended to the domain of co-textual markers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The use of co-textual irony markers in written discourse

Burgers¹,

Mulken

Schellens

2013

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“…Verbal irony is a fi gure of speech very commonly used to achieve various social and communicative goals (Kreuz & Roberts, 1995;Leggit & Gibbs, 2000). Th e speaker may decide to use an ironic utt erance instead of a literal one in order to, for example, express criticism indirectly -a positive statement with a negative intended meaning (e.g., Dews, Kaplan, & Winner, 1995).…”

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Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children

Zajączkowska

2016

Psychology of Language and Communication

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GTh e main aim of the presented study was to investigate the infl uence of voice intonation on the comprehension of ironic utt erances in 4-to 6-year-old Polish-speaking children. 83 preschool children were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (Banasik & Bokus, 2012). In the Irony Comprehension Task, children are presented with stories in which ironic utt erances were prerecorded and read by professional speakers using an ironic intonation. Half of the subjects performed the regular Irony Comprehension Task while the other half were given a modifi ed version of the Irony Comprehension Task (ironic content was utt ered using a non-ironic intonation). Results indicate that children from the ironic intonation group scored higher on the Irony Comprehension Task than children who heard ironic statements utt ered using a neutral voice. Ironic voice intonation appeared to be a helpful cue to irony comprehension.

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Automatic Detection of Irony

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Two Cues for Verbal Irony: Hyperbole and the Ironic Tone of Voice

Cited by 223 publications

References 18 publications

The use of co-textual irony markers in written discourse

The use of co-textual irony markers in written discourse

Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children

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