The present study examines single-word-utterances and focuses on (1) production patterns of irony as opposed to sincerity and (2) listeners’ ability to distinguish between the two without any contextual information. The results of the acoustic measurements show a lower average F0, less F0 variability, a smaller F0 range, lower intensity and longer durations for the ironic stimuli. The perceptio...

This paper focuses on the use of diminutives in Polish to express irony. The phenomenon is analyzed from perspective morphopragmatics (Dressler, Merlini Barbaresi 1994; 2015; Nagórko 2015) and reports results a small-scale informant-based study, which twelve respondents described their evaluation pragmatic meaning contributed by three naturally-occurring spoken sentences. In most cases, there w...

English. Automatic irony detection is a young field of research related to Sentiment Analysis. When dealing with social media data, the shortness of text and the extraction of the statement from his context usually makes it hard to understand irony even for humans but especially for machines. In this paper we propose an analysis of the role that textual information plays in the perception and c...

Abstract Quotation marks are used for different purposes in language, one of which is to signal that something has be interpreted an ironic way, as the utterance What a “nice” day! said on rainy and cold day. The present contribution describes reading time experiment we analyzed processing understanding written sentences with or without quotation asked whether how these affect subjects’ sentenc...

Performing and understanding conversational irony requires a complex management of multiple viewpoints. To communicate negotiate these intricate viewpoint shifts, speakers (and addressees) often use nonverbal means (e.g. gaze shrugs, shifts in body orientation, hand gestures, etc.) next to verbal strategies. In the present paper we zoom on perspective speaker try describe quantify bodily behavi...