irony makes the word meaning multifaceted and contradictory meanings being extended in text. explaining the theoretical framework of irony, it has been tried in present research to make the ironic components clear, to extract the common features between irony and other semantic industries of persian language, and to analyze the tricks and efficient forms of irony in hafiz's poetry. the res...

Sarcasm and irony, although similar, differ in that sarcasm has an impact on sentiment (because it is used to ridicule a target) while irony does not. Past work treats the two interchangeably. In this paper, we wish to validate if sarcasm versus irony classification is indeed a challenging task. To this end, we use a dataset of quotes from English literature, and conduct experiments from two pe...

Situational irony concerns what it is about a situation that causes people to describe it as ironic. Although situational irony is as complex and commonplace as verbal and literary irony, it has received nowhere near the same attention from cognitive scientists and other scholars. This paper presents the bicoherence theory of situational irony, based on the theory of conceptual coherence (Kunda...

This paper explores the risks and reward of ironic communication. We argue that irony can not be characterized simply as having positive or negative social impact, but can serve multiple communicative purposes, depending on the social context and aims of the conversational participants. Irony may either distance, or bond, speakers and listeners. Contrary to the standard view, understanding iron...

Irony is perceived through a complex interaction between an utterance and its context and serves many social functions such as to be sarcastic and to be humorous. The purpose of this paper is to explore what role linguistic style and contextual information play in the recognition of irony (i.e., assessing the degree of irony) and in the appreciation of ironic functions (i.e., assessing the degr...

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...

1. Traditional approaches to irony Here are some typical examples of verbal irony: (1) Mary (after a boring party): That was fun. (2) I left my bag in the restaurant, and someone kindly walked off with it. (3) Sue (to someone who has done her a disservice): I can't thank you enough. In each case, the point of the irony is to indicate that a proposition the speaker might otherwise be taken to en...

Verbal irony is characterized by the use of specific acoustic modulations, especially global prosodic cues as well as vowel hyperarticulation. Little is known concerning the expression of sarcastic speech in French. Here we report on global prosodic features of sarcastic speech in a corpus of declarative French utterances. Our data show that sarcastic productions are characterized by utterance ...

Irony and humour are just two of many forms of figurative language. Approaches to identify in vast volumes of data such as the internet humorous or ironic statements is important not only from a theoretical view point but also for their potential applicability in social networks or human-computer interactive systems. In this study we investigate the automatic detection of irony and humour in so...