A significant part of everyday verbal communication consists of nonliteral language,
including irony (Gibbs 2000). Efficient irony use can serve a wide range of pragmatic goals …

There has been little research conducted on the use of figurative language in parents' input
provided by caregivers in child-directed speech during the first four years of the child's life …

In this article, I investigate how interpreters handle humorous utterances during plenary
debates of the European Parliament, focusing on the input by one Polish Member of the …

Children find verbal irony difficult to understand. Yet they need to acquire the skill of
comprehending it in order to become proficient communicators and to master deep reading …

The aim of the described study was to check how preschool children justify using ironic
statements. In the Irony Comprehension Task adopted for examining young children, the …

Verbal irony is when a speaker's communicative intent is not the literal meaning of the
statement and is commonly used as banter or to soften criticism. The main aim of this thesis …

To say that childhood has changed dramatically over the years is an under-statement. For
many children, it is no longer the carefree period of life where engaging in simple activities …

Celem opisanego badania było sprawdzenie, jak dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym
uzasadniają stosowanie wypowiedzi ironicznych. W Zadaniu Rozumienia Ironii (ZRI) …

The Velvet Underground: What Goes On 224 his fans are that their idol is either gifted but
ineffectual or a self-deluding failure. Even at a time when the performative tropes of punk …

The linguistic and philosophical monograph by Alessandro Capone, entitled 'The
pragmatics of Indirect Reports: Socio-philosophical Considerations', is written from an …