Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Interdisciplinary perspectives on irony
7. Chapter 1. Irony performance and perception 19
8. Chapter 2. How does irony arise in experience? 43
9. Chapter 3. In defense of an ecumenical approach to irony 61
10. Part II. Irony, thought and (media) communication
11. Chapter 4. Introducing a three-dimensional model of verbal irony 87
12. Chapter 5. On ironic puns in Portuguese authentic oral data 109
13. Chapter 6. Irony and sarcasm in follow-ups of metaphorical slogans 127
14. Part III. Approaches to verbal irony
15. Chapter 7. Irony, pretence and fictively-elaborating hyperbole 145
16. Chapter 8. Cognitive modeling and irony 179
17. Chapter 9. Irony has a metonymic basis 201
18. Part IV. Approaches to studying irony
19. Chapter 10. Defaultness shines while affirmation pales 219
20. Chapter 11. The standard experimental approach to the study of irony 237
21. Chapter 12. Investigating sarcasm comprehension using eye-tracking during reading 255
22. Name index 277
23. Subject index 279