The paper makes two central claims: the first is that irony a prototypical and perhaps exemplar category, there are some types of irony that are more “central” than others. The second claim is that irony is processed and produced largely subconsciously and that its meaning is indeterminate. Implications for the theory of irony and irony processing are examined. Furthermore, the existence of canned or idiomatic irony facilitates automatic/subconscious processing. This paper assumes a number of facts about irony, which are discussed at length elsewhere. I also assume, without further discussion, the model of irony I presented in Attardo (2000), which can be summarized as follows: an ironical situation is a sextuple (S, H, C, u, p, p’).
2023. Tracking the Ironical Eye: Eye Tracking Studies on Irony and Sarcasm. In The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought, ► pp. 140 ff.
Canestrari, Carla, Ivana Bianchi & Valerio Cori
2018. De-polarizing verbal irony. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 30:1 ► pp. 43 ff.
GARFINKEL, Sarah, Meredith L. ROWE, Sandra BOSACKI & Natalia BANASIK-JEMIELNIAK
2023. “Mom said it in quotation marks!” Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds. Journal of Child Language► pp. 1 ff.
Knoblock, Natalia
2016. Sarcasm and Irony as a Political Weapon. In Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies [Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, ], ► pp. 11 ff.
2023. Irony in Linguistic Communication. In The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought, ► pp. 129 ff.
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