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The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought

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Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Herbert L. Colston, Gregory Currie, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Patrawat Samermit, Christopher Karzmark, Herbert Colston, Claire Colebrook, Paul Simpson, Angeliki Athanasiadou, Salvadore Attardo, Francisco Yus, Penny Pexman, Gregory Bryant, Tony Veale, Marta Dynel, Ruth Filik, John Barnden, Laura Neuhaus, Christian Burgers, Cameron Shelley, James McDowell, Katherine Turner, Sabatino DiBernardo, Albert Katz
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  • Date Published: December 2023
  • availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108978323

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience; irony's impact (both personal and in social life); irony in linguistic communication; irony and affect, and irony in expressive contexts. Contributions come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, computer science, film and media studies, and music, making this a truly cross-disciplinary collection of benefit to a wide range of students and researchers.

    • Explores the range of empirical and analytic methods used to study irony in human life
    • Elevates the status of irony in the study of figurative language and thought
    • Each contribution is oriented toward thinking about how irony and human cognition/thought may be interrelated
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    • Date Published: December 2023
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108978323
    • length: 500 pages
    • dimensions: 250 x 175 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.815kg
    • availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024

  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Introduction:
    1. Irony and thought: the state of the art Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Herbert L. Colston
    Part II. The Scope of Irony:
    2. Kinds of irony: a general theory Gregory Currie
    3. Irony and cognitive operations Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza
    4. The varieties of ironic experience Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., Patrawat Samermit and Christopher Karzmark
    Part III. Irony's Impact:
    5. Irony as social work: opposition, expectation violation, and contrast Herbert Colston
    6. Rorty, irony and neoliberalism Claire Colebrook
    7. Irony and its consequences in the public sphere Paul Simpson
    Part IV. Irony in Linguistic Communication:
    8. Constructions in verbal irony production: the case of rhetorical questions Angeliki Athanasiadou
    9. Tracking the ironical eye: eye tracking studies on irony and sarcasm Salvadore Attardo
    10. Inferring irony online Francisco Yus
    11. Irony and thought: developmental insights Penny Pexman
    12. Vocal strategies in ironic communication Gregory Bryant
    13. Great expectations and EPIC fails: a computational perspective on irony and sarcasm Tony Veale
    Part V. Irony, Affect and Related Figures:
    14. Irony and humor Marta Dynel
    15. Emotional responses to sarcasm Ruth Filik
    16. Irony, exaggeration and hyperbole: no embargo on the cargo! John Barnden
    17. Irony and its overlap with hyperbole and understatement Laura Neuhaus
    18. Irony and satire Christian Burgers
    19. Hypocrisy and situational irony Cameron Shelley
    Part VI. Irony in Expressive, Nonlinguistic Media:
    20. Ironies in film James McDowell
    21. An ear for irony Katherine Turner and Sabatino DiBernardo
    22. Pictorial irony and sarcasm Albert Katz.

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  • Editors

    Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr
    Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is an independent cognitive scientist and former Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. His research interests focus on embodied cognition, pragmatics, and figurative language. He is the author of many books, including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding (1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999), Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2006), Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphor in Human Life (2017), and Interpreting Figurative Meaning (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (2008).

    Herbert L. Colston, University of Alberta
    Herbert L. Colston is a Professor at the University of Alberta, USA. His research involves figurativity broadly construed, including its social and embodied underpinnings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Metaphor & Symbol (Taylor & Francis Journal) and co-Editor of Figurative Thought and Language (John Benjamins Book Series). His most recent book is How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy (2019).

    Contributors

    Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Herbert L. Colston, Gregory Currie, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Patrawat Samermit, Christopher Karzmark, Herbert Colston, Claire Colebrook, Paul Simpson, Angeliki Athanasiadou, Salvadore Attardo, Francisco Yus, Penny Pexman, Gregory Bryant, Tony Veale, Marta Dynel, Ruth Filik, John Barnden, Laura Neuhaus, Christian Burgers, Cameron Shelley, James McDowell, Katherine Turner, Sabatino DiBernardo, Albert Katz

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