In:
Review of Cognitive Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol. 16, No. 1 ( 2018-5-31), p. 19-47
Abstract:
What are the constraints rendering stimuli, such as Alert he is not; He is not the most organized person around; Hospitality is not his best attribute ; Do you really believe you are sophisticated ? sarcastic by default ? Recent findings ( Filik, Howman, Ralph-Nearman, & Giora, in press ; Giora et al., 2005 , 2013 , 2015a , 2015b , in progress a ) suggest that strongly attenuating a highly positive concept, e.g., alert, sophisticated, most organized, best attribute (associated here with hospitality ), induces sarcastic interpretations by default . To be interpreted sarcastically by default , items should be construable as such in the absence of factors inviting sarcasm. 1 They should, thus, be (i) novel, noncoded in the mental lexicon, (ii) potentially ambiguous between literal and nonliteral interpretations, so that a preference is allowed, and (iii) free of specific and biasing contextual information. Online and offline studies, collecting self-paced reading times, eye-tracking data during reading, sarcasm rating, and pleasure ratings, alongside corpus-based studies, further support this view. 2
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1877-9751
,
1877-976X
DOI:
10.1075/rcl.00002.gio
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication Date:
2018
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2560531-8
SSG:
7,11
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