Abstract The present paper is concerned with the knowledge or cognitive repre-sentations which individuals must possess in order to understand utterances occurring in conversations. We examined Brown and Levinson’s (1978) model which reconciles the Cooperative Principle of Grice (1975) with the face-wants of conversational interactants by relativising the operation of abstract principles of conversation to aspects of the social relationship between the speaker and hearer. In an empirical study of ironic sarcasm and banter, Brown and Levinson’s model is found to require an additional relationship parameter, ‘relationship affect’, to account for the ways in which neutral observers interpret counter-to-fact insults and compliments. As predicte...
The article reviews a volume collecting a series of papers related to aspects of interpersonal commu...
It is an established notion in psychology that external factors affect how we behave and what we say...
Indirect forms of speech, such as sarcasm, jocularity (joking), and ‘white lies’ told to spare anoth...
The way we speak can reveal much about what we intend to communicate, but the words we use often onl...
This contribution focuses on verbal amplifiers and comical hypotheticals in a corpus of face-to-face...
I examine the Brown and Levinson (1978) model of politeness. On the assumption that a model of face ...
From a communication psychology point of view, irony is not only a rhetorical figure or a cunning li...
Irony, as "quotation" and "Fencing game, " consists of an interactive script, grounded on a focal ev...
Irony, as "quotation" and "fencing game," consists of an interactive script, grounded on a focal ev...
Speakers use a range of cues to signal ironic intent, including cues based on contrast with context,...
The ambiguity of our language system requires that listeners go beyond the words uttered, integrate ...
Speakers signal sarcastic intent in a variety of ways, including the words they use and the tone of ...
We study whether recipients draw inferences about speakers’ stereotypic impressions from their ironi...
Human communication often involves the use of figurative language, such as verbal irony or sarcasm, ...
Consistent with the well-established tradition of cognitive pragmatics, this work hinges on the id...
The article reviews a volume collecting a series of papers related to aspects of interpersonal commu...
It is an established notion in psychology that external factors affect how we behave and what we say...
Indirect forms of speech, such as sarcasm, jocularity (joking), and ‘white lies’ told to spare anoth...
The way we speak can reveal much about what we intend to communicate, but the words we use often onl...
This contribution focuses on verbal amplifiers and comical hypotheticals in a corpus of face-to-face...
I examine the Brown and Levinson (1978) model of politeness. On the assumption that a model of face ...
From a communication psychology point of view, irony is not only a rhetorical figure or a cunning li...
Irony, as "quotation" and "Fencing game, " consists of an interactive script, grounded on a focal ev...
Irony, as "quotation" and "fencing game," consists of an interactive script, grounded on a focal ev...
Speakers use a range of cues to signal ironic intent, including cues based on contrast with context,...
The ambiguity of our language system requires that listeners go beyond the words uttered, integrate ...
Speakers signal sarcastic intent in a variety of ways, including the words they use and the tone of ...
We study whether recipients draw inferences about speakers’ stereotypic impressions from their ironi...
Human communication often involves the use of figurative language, such as verbal irony or sarcasm, ...
Consistent with the well-established tradition of cognitive pragmatics, this work hinges on the id...
The article reviews a volume collecting a series of papers related to aspects of interpersonal commu...
It is an established notion in psychology that external factors affect how we behave and what we say...
Indirect forms of speech, such as sarcasm, jocularity (joking), and ‘white lies’ told to spare anoth...