Irony in talk among friends. Gibbs Metaphor and Symbol, 15:5--27, 2000. Reprinted in Gibbs & Colston (2007), p. 339-360
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This article reports the findings of a single study examining irony in talk among friends. Sixty-two 10-min conversations between college students and their friends were recorded and analyzed. Five main types of irony were found: jocularity, sarcasm, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, and understatements. These different forms of ironic language were part of 8% of all conversational turns. Analysis of these utterances revealed varying linguistic and social patterns, and suggested several constraints on how and why people achieve ironic meaning. The implications of this conclusion for psychological theories of irony are discussed.
@article{gibbs_irony_2000,
	title = {Irony in talk among friends},
	volume = {15},
	abstract = {This article reports the findings of a single study examining irony in talk among friends. Sixty-two 10-min conversations between college students and their friends were recorded and analyzed. Five main types of irony were found: jocularity, sarcasm, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, and understatements. These different forms of ironic language were part of 8\% of all conversational turns. Analysis of these utterances revealed varying linguistic and social patterns, and suggested several constraints on how and why people achieve ironic meaning. The implications of this conclusion for psychological theories of irony are discussed.},
	journal = {Metaphor and Symbol},
	author = {Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.},
	year = {2000},
	note = {Reprinted in Gibbs \& Colston (2007), p. 339-360},
	keywords = {irony},
	pages = {5--27}
}

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