maandag 12 oktober 2020

George Bryant Is Verbal Irony Special

 Irony = evaluative utterance implying an unstated opposing evaluation

Example of a long wide range of types of implict communication: of inferential communication; infer mental states of other people: metarepresentation; ToM.

The sentences we speak are often produred in a manner that will allow an audience to derive certain unstated meanings, and the way we put them is often particularly economical because our heavy reliance on other inferential abilities

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