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Multimodal markers of irony and sarcasm
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This article is published in Humor: International Journal of Humor Research.The article was published on 2003-06-13. It has received 267 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sarcasm & Irony.read more
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Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
TL;DR: This paper presented a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal.
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Detecting Sarcasm from Paralinguistic Cues: Anatomic and Cognitive Correlates in Neurodegenerative Disease
Katherine P. Rankin,Andrea Salazar,Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini,Marc Sollberger,Stephen M. Wilson,Danijela Pavlic,Christine M. Stanley,Shenly Glenn,Michael W. Weiner,Bruce L. Miller +9 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the neuroanatomy underlying failure to understand sarcasm from dynamic vocal and facial paralinguistic cues and found that sarcasm comprehension was predicted by smaller volume in bilateral posterior parahippocampi (PHc), temporal poles, and R medial frontal pole (pFWE < 0.05).
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Jocular mockery, (dis)affiliation, and face
TL;DR: The authors explored how jocular mockery is interactionally achieved as an action, and the ways in which participants align or disalign their responses to previous actions through jocular mirth, thereby indexing affiliative or disaffiliative stances with other participants.
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Is there an ironic tone of voice
TL;DR: There is no particular ironic tone of voice and that listeners interpret verbal irony by combining a variety of cues, including information outside of the linguistic context.
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The sound of sarcasm
Henry S. Cheang,Marc D. Pell +1 more
TL;DR: It was concluded that sarcasm in speech can be characterized by a specific pattern of prosodic cues in addition to textual cues, and that these acoustic characteristics can be influenced by language used by the speaker.
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Irony as relevant inappropriateness
TL;DR: The authors presented a theory of irony which claims that an ironical utterance is both inappropriate and relevant to its context, and extensive discussion of previous theories of irony is presented to justify the various aspects of the theory and in particular its two-stage processing approach.
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