Theories of meaning propose that listeners understand a speaker's implicit meaning thanks
to mutually assumed norms of conversation that take into account what the speaker has …

While incongruence with the background context is a powerful cue for irony, in spoken
conversation ironic utterances often bear non-contextual cues, such as marked tone of voice …

Sentimental analysis aims at inferring how people express their opinion over any piece of
text or topic of interest. This article deals with detection of an implicit form of the sentiment …

A highly emblematic paradigm in experimental pragmatics consists in presenting
participants with an existentially quantified sentence of the form Some X are Y in a context in …

Purpose Sentiment analysis has observed a nascent interest over the past decade in the
field of social media analytics. With major advances in the volume, rationality and veracity of …

Verbal irony is a rhetorical device that is not only verbal but also paraverbal. In the present
study, we explored the paraverbal expression of verbal irony which has been largely …

This study investigated whether native Chinese speakers' comprehension of ironic criticism
is constrained by relationship closeness in two experiments. In Experiment One, participants …

Each culture has a distinct set of features that contribute to a unique communication style.
For example, bilinguals often balance multiple social contexts and may undergo cognitive …

The present study sought to investigate, in French, the relative influence of both contextual
incongruity and prosodic cues on irony comprehension and to explore whether individual …

Indirect speech acts communicate more than their literal meaning, and their comprehension
relies on the listener's ability to draw the appropriate inferences in a given context. We used …