| The question of verbal irony is of expanding relevance to a range of fields of cultural information and inquiry. |
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| Learn how to use verbal irony by crafting dialogue that could have multiple meanings. |
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| In her experiment, psychologist Penny Pexman of the University of Calgary found that children as young as five were able to detect verbal irony. |
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| It is well known that speakers rely on prosodic and gestural features at the time of producing and understanding verbal irony. |
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| Counterfactual verbal irony, in which the literal meaning of an utterance is directly opposite its intended meaning, is a figurative language form. |
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| This study offers a pragmatic account of verbal irony, arguing that verbal irony can be best treated as a special type of conversational implicature. |
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| Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," is loaded with irony, and there are several excellent examples of verbal irony to be found. |
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| Three experiments assessed four variables that may affect verbal irony processing: people’s expectations of events, event outcome, evaluations of outcome, and shared common ground. |
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| The verbal irony in the story would have played well in the first century. |
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| Dramatic irony is frequently contrasted with verbal irony. |
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| Ms. Dowd is a great columnist to turn to when teaching verbal irony. |
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| Although sarcasm is the most common from of verbal irony and is widely used to convey thinly disguised disapproval, contempt and scorn, little or no research has been carried out on its effects. |
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| Verbal irony arises from a sophisticated or resigned awareness of contrast between what is and what ought to be and expresses a controlled pathos without sentimentality. |
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