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The Uses and Processing of Irony and Sarcasm

A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbol

• Edited by Albert N. Katz

• Price: $37.50
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 120
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 1st February 2000
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-9770-8

About the Book

The five papers in this special issue, and the commentary on them by Roger Kreuz, are at the cutting edge of research on irony and sarcasm. The papers examine irony and sarcasm in experimental and in natural settings; with fully functioning adults and with children or people with brain damage, cases where irony is only partially implemented; and employ a wide range of methodologies. These papers demonstrate not only the scope and richness of current thinking on irony and sarcasm, but also how central the understanding of these phenomena are to our understanding of language and thought in general.

Table of Contents

Volume 15, Numbers 1 and 2, 2000
Contents: A.N. Katz, Introduction to the Special Issue: The Uses and Processing of Irony and Sarcasm. R.W. Gibbs, Jr., Irony in Talk Among Friends. M.A. Creusere, A Developmental Test of Theoretical Perspectives on the Understanding of Verbal Irony: Children's Recognition of Allusion and Pragmatic Insincerity. J. Schwoebel, S. Dews, E. Winner, K. Srinivas, Obligatory Processing of the Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances: Further Evidence. R. Giora, E. Zaidel, N. Soroker, G. Batori, A. Kasher, Differential Effects of Right and Left Hemisphere Damage on Understanding Sarcasm and Metaphor. S. McDonald, Neuropsychological Studies of Sarcasm. R.J. Kreuz, The Production and Processing of Verbal Irony. E. Ibarretxe-Antunano, B. Nerlich, Review of Metafora y Conocimiento.