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In:Irony in Language Use and Communication
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston
[Figurative Thought and Language 1] 2017
► pp. 279–282

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Published online: 14 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.1.si

A

  • absurdity 151–155, 158, 165–168, 171, 175
  • accidental, external ironies52
  • acted speaker 146–147, 156–159, 170–171, 175
  • acted character46
  • aesthetics of irony 71–72, 80
  • aesthetics 76, 80, 82
  • affirmation 140, 173, 219–221, 223–226, 228–230, 233–234
  • affirmative sarcasm 219–220, 222, 227–228, 230–232, 234
  • affirmatives 219, 221, 223, 225, 227, 234
  • allusional pretense 31–34, 141, 182
  • antonymy 22, 37, 201, 204
  • art 37, 61, 71, 79, 81
  • asymmetry of affect 96–97
  • attitude 20–21, 31, 33, 69, 72, 75–76, 78, 121–122, 148–149, 151–155, 157–158, 160, 165, 170–171, 174–175, 179, 181, 183, 185–187, 193, 195–196, 203, 208, 239, 257
    • export 157–158, 160–163, 165–171, 173
    • speaker’s attitude 179, 181, 183, 186, 193, 196, 257
  • attitude-wrapping 148, 153, 170–171, 174–175
    • attenuation of 151, 158, 166
  • authentic oral discourse109

B

  • belief 44–45, 123, 138, 162–163, 165–166, 170–171, 183, 187, 194–197, 260
  • benign violation 43, 52–53
  • “benign violation theory”53
  • bicoherence theory of situational irony 33, 49
  • bicoherent nature of ironic thinking56
  • bilateral symmetricity 4, 14
  • bizarreness 151, 158, 160–162, 168–175

C

  • Career of Metaphor Theory90
  • category/schema maintenance alarm37
  • cognitive load51
  • cognitive mechanisms 68, 69, 72, 77, 81, 121, 123, 201
  • cognitive model 192–193
  • cognitive operation 179, 184, 193, 196–197, 203, 207
    • inferential cognitive operation 190, 193, 197
  • cognitive science 68, 72, 76, 80
  • comic irony19
  • comparison 28, 46, 88–89, 201, 206, 208–210, 212, 238, 248, 269, 273
  • comprehension (of figurative language)137
  • conceptual analysis 63–64, 77, 80, 81
  • conceptual contiguity 204–205
  • conceptual metaphor 53, 20, 87
  • Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) 87, 90
  • confirmation biases37
  • “conjoined antonymy” 19–20, 22, 37
  • constraint satisfaction framework273
  • constraint satisfaction models242
  • constructional aspects of irony206
  • context 22, 32, 34, 38, 44, 46, 72–73, 96, 99, 111, 114, 116, 127–130, 136, 138–140, 146, 150, 156, 163, 175, 183–193, 195–197, 202–204, 207, 213, 219–220, 222–223, 226, 232, 238, 240–243, 245–247, 249, 251, 256–261, 263–265, 271–273
  • context generation technique237
  • continuity question70
  • contradiction 19–26, 28, 30–32, 34–35, 37–38, 62, 129, 137
  • contrast 23–28, 32–35, 61–62, 65, 74, 76, 79, 88–89, 92–98, 100, 104, 111, 114, 118, 129, 138, 145–149, 159–175, 179, 181, 183, 187–189, 193, 197, 201, 203–204, 209, 212, 222–223, 226, 230, 245, 247, 249, 251
  • contrast account32
  • contrasting operation179
  • controllability of mental states51
  • conventional irony 99–102
  • conventionalization34
  • cosmic irony 19, 28
  • criticism in irony 149–150, 154–158, 160–169, 170–175
  • critical irony 160, 165, 169–170
  • cultural meme20

D

  • default 99–101, 127, 138–140, 170, 173, 219–228, 230–234, 264
  • defaultness 100–101, 103, 130, 138, 140, 219–236
  • Defaultness Hypothesis 100, 219–222, 226, 228, 231–234
  • deliberate irony 88, 97–102, 104
  • deliberate metaphor 90, 98
  • deliberateness 88, 90, 97–99, 101–102, 104
  • Direct Access View101
  • disappointment 149, 164–166, 186, 188–189, 195
  • disbelief 155, 170, 187, 194
  • discourse history 127, 139
  • dramatic irony 19, 28, 40, 49, 65

E

  • echo 63, 65, 67, 72, 74, 76–77, 79, 93–94, 139, 146, 179, 181, 183–187, 189, 193, 195–197, 234, 257–258, 260, 271–273
  • echoic accounts 31, 34
  • echoic mention 23, 31, 33, 46, 63–67, 69, 72–77, 93, 234, 238, 242, 255, 257–259, 271–273
  • echoic mention theory 257–259, 271–273
  • echoic reminder 23, 31, 33–34, 273
  • echoic use 69, 93, 188
  • echoic utterance 127, 186, 188
  • ecological validity 237–239, 248
  • ecumenical approach to irony61
  • ecumenical approach 61, 63, 77, 80–81
  • Ecumenical approaches 61–63, 65, 69–70, 77–81
  • ethics of irony 71–72, 74–75, 80
  • exaggeration 151–158, 160, 166–167, 170–171, 181, 189, 210
  • experimental approaches 237–238
  • explicature194
  • eye-tracking 255, 257–259, 271, 273

F

  • fables13
  • family resemblance 65, 80, 81
  • fictive elaboration 153–154, 159, 166, 168, 170–171, 174
  • Fields Medal 21–22, 26
  • figuration 201–202
  • figurative 20, 23, 38, 44–45, 66, 87–88, 97, 103, 110, 124, 127, 132, 137, 139–141, 179, 181–183, 188, 201, 203, 209, 213, 223, 255, 273
  • figurative language 20, 38, 44–45, 66, 87–88, 124, 137, 139–140, 255, 273
  • follow-up 127–128

G

  • Game theory87
  • graded salience 32, 34, 99, 137, 221–222, 226, 242, 256–257, 259, 271–274
  • Graded Salience Hypothesis (GSH) 99, 221–222, 226, 242, 256–257, 259, 271–273

H

  • highlighting 36, 171, 187, 191, 196, 203, 205
  • historical irony 19, 49
  • (David) Hockney’s “Picture Emphasizing Stillness”78
  • homonymy 109–112, 119–121
  • humor 27, 36–37, 43, 52–58, 62, 124–125, 242, 249
  • humorous experience53
  • humorous violations53
  • hyperbole 67, 69, 73, 80, 145, 147–148, 151–152, 156, 165–170, 173, 181, 189, 201–203, 205, 210–211, 240
    • fictively-elaborating hyperbole 147–159, 150, 152–156, 165–175
    • scalar hyperbole 151–152, 156, 169, 174
  • hyperbolic comparison 206, 210

I

  • idiom 131, 134, 138–139
  • imagined context 146, 156, 175
  • implicature 127–128, 194
  • implicit display theory of irony33
  • inference 23, 27, 182, 188, 192, 202
  • intensification 166, 205, 207, 210, 212–213
  • intention to control a mental state51
  • interpretations 53, 56, 63, 79, 130, 138, 140, 220–223, 225–228, 230, 233–234
  • ironic blame 87, 96–97
  • ironic constructions 32, 201, 206, 213
  • ironic praise 87, 96–97, 103
  • ironic pretence 145–148, 156–159, 164–165, 172–175
  • ironic restatement 31, 33
  • ironic tone of voice 45, 69
  • irony 19–24, 27–28, 30–44, 47, 48, 52, 56, 61–81, 87–88, 90–112, 114, 118, 121–125, 127–130, 137, 139, 145–158, 160, 162, 164–165, 168–171, 174–175, 179, 181–188, 193, 195–208, 210–213, 219, 234–245, 247–249, 251–255, 273
  • irony bias 101–104
  • irony chain46
  • irony marker 91, 92, 97, 103
  • irony of fate 49, 65
  • “Isn’t it Ironic”23

J

  • juxtaposed oppositionality13

K

  • Kierkegaard Soren74

L

  • language comprehension 23, 39, 137, 182
  • less-salient 222, 226
  • lexicalization34
  • like-construction 201, 206, 210–211, 213
  • Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) 237, 243, 252
  • literalness 219–220, 227–228, 231–232, 234, 251

M

  • meanings 43, 61, 95, 99, 102, 109–110, 115, 121–123, 137, 203–204, 208, 220–223, 225–226, 230, 233, 256, 272
  • meaning inversion/reversal80
  • mechanism question70
  • mental control50
  • mental space 156, 111
  • metaphor 20, 54–55, 71, 87–92, 97–101, 103–104, 124, 127–139, 147, 155–156, 179–183, 190–191, 203–206, 209–213, 220, 239–240
  • metarepresentation 118, 122, 127
  • metonymic irony 203, 205
  • metonymy 109, 116, 121, 141, 179–181, 191–192, 208, 210, 201–213
  • monitor 51, 263

N

  • natural kinds 67, 68, 76
  • negation 95, 105, 124, 138, 140, 202, 211, 220, 226, 234
  • negative sarcasm 219–221, 227–228, 230–232, 234
  • negative tension 242, 244, 258
  • negatives 219, 221, 223, 225, 227
  • Nobel Prize26
  • nondefault 138, 219–228, 230–234
  • non-deliberate irony 88, 97–102, 104
  • non-deliberate metaphor90
  • nonsalience 219–220, 228, 234
  • nonsalient 40, 219–223, 226, 233, 234
  • no-reply control group 237, 247
  • normative bias 69, 75

O

  • opposing scripts 201–202, 206
  • opposition 19–21, 28, 30, 35, 49, 62, 145, 201–208, 210, 212
  • overstatement 46, 151, 153, 188–189, 208
  • oxymoron189

P

  • paradox 50, 55, 141, 189
  • parody 39, 66–67, 69
  • pastiche39
  • performative irony 19, 36, 39
  • pictorial context232
  • Plato’s Meno 63
  • pleasure 140, 219, 221, 231–233
  • polysemy 109–112, 115–117, 121, 123, 204
  • Portuguese 109, 111–115, 118
    • European Portuguese 109, 111–113, 121
    • Brazilian Portuguese 109, 111–112, 119, 121
    • positivity biases37
  • pragmatic insincerity 34, 182, 242, 258
  • Pragmatics77
  • presupposition139
  • pretence 110, 128–129, 145–148, 156, 159, 173–174
  • pretense 23, 30–34, 43, 46, 63, 65–67, 69, 72, 74–77, 79, 94, 98, 140–141, 179, 182–184, 234
  • Pretense Theory 65–67, 74, 94, 140–141, 179, 182
  • “principle of least disruption”32
  • problem of promiscuous application 61–63, 70
  • process tree modeling237
  • processing speed 219, 223, 228, 231
  • prosody69
  • proverbs223
  • psychological biases37
  • “pulling a leg”54
  • puns 53, 109–112, 121–124

Q

  • quasi-experimental approaches237
  • quotation 127, 129, 131, 134

R

  • recontextualisation127
  • regret 149, 164, 166–167
  • Relevance Theory 93–94, 124, 179, 181–183, 197
  • relevant inappropriateness 32, 34, 105, 182
  • restrictive approach 5, 61, 62, 69, 72, 76, 77, 80
  • romantic irony 19, 49

S

  • salience 32, 34, 49, 52, 99–100, 105, 128, 130, 137–138, 140, 205, 219–223, 226, 233, 235–234, 242, 256–257, 259, 271–273
  • salient 44, 51, 56, 137–138, 205, 209, 219–223, 226, 230, 233, 241–243, 256
  • sarcasm 43, 45–46, 53, 67, 71, 77, 87, 114, 121, 127–128, 130, 136, 145, 150, 155, 171–173, 219–222, 227–228, 230–232, 234, 238–244, 247, 255–259, 263–264, 271, 273
  • satire 39, 46
  • scenario 96, 119–122, 127, 129, 136–139, 147, 174, 179, 190, 192, 194–195, 197, 239, 246–247, 260–261, 263, 265
  • selective recall37
  • “self-fulfilling prophesies”52
  • Semantics77
  • simile 89, 90, 156, 197, 201, 208, 209, 210–212
  • simulation 48, 181
  • sincerity 74–75
  • situational irony 19–23, 27–28, 30, 33–36, 38–39, 43, 48–49, 65–68, 70, 73, 80–81, 182
    • seven major types of situational irony49
  • “situational irony depicted in images”38
  • situation-internal ironies52
  • slogan 127, 131–136, 138
  • Socrates 63, 71, 74
  • Socratic irony 49, 74
  • Spanish 109, 112–118, 122–123
  • Standard Pragmatic Model 99, 256–257, 259, 271, 273
  • stories 258–259

T

  • “The Gift of the Magi”48
  • Theophrastus 71, 74
  • thought suppression 50, 52, 56, 71
  • three-dimensional model 87–90, 92, 98, 101, 103–105, 140–141
  • tickle52
  • Trump Donald71
  • “trumping”24

U

  • understatement 30, 45–46, 61, 67, 73, 120, 188–189, 205, 208
  • uses of irony 27, 32
    • affiliative uses of irony75
  • usefulness question70

V

  • Vasarely Victor79
  • verbal context 237–238
  • verbal irony 19–23, 30–39, 43–47, 56, 65, 70, 72–77, 79, 87–88, 90–92, 96–98, 103, 121, 124, 140–141, 145–146, 148, 182, 202–203, 206, 208, 212, 219, 237
    • classic definitions of verbal irony45
    • social and emotional impact of verbal irony46
  • Verbal Irony Procedure (VIP) 45, 239
  • verbal puns 109, 121
  • visual irony 78, 79

W

  • “white bear” experiments50

Y

  • “yanking a chain”54
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