Is the victim of irony identified by echoic mention?

• Ishida Yasushi

  Hokkaido University

• Abe Jun-ichi

  Hokkaido University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• アイロニーによる非難の対象は反復的言及によって同定されるか
• アイロニー ニ ヨル ヒナン ノ タイショウ ワ ハンプクテキ ゲンキュウ ニ ヨッテ ドウテイ サレル カ

Abstract

Sperber and Wilson (1981) proposed that the speaker who uttered the expectation that is contradicted by irony is identified as the victim of the irony by the echoic mention of his/her utterance. We conducted two experiments to explore whether the victim of irony is identified by echoic mention. Experiment 1 examined the validity of this hypothesis using three conditions. In the Hearer (H) echo condition, the speaker who is echoed is the hearer of the potential irony. In the No-Hearer (NH) echo condition, the speaker who is echoed is not the hearer of the potential irony. The third condition is the no-echo condition. The result supported the hypothesis. In Experiment 2, we manipulated the H echo factor and the NH echo factor in 4 conditions. The results replicated Experiment 1, and showed that the NH is identified as the victim of irony more than the H. These results suggest that echoic mention and also status in the discourse are factors in the comprehension of irony.

Journal

• The Japanese journal of psychology

  The Japanese journal of psychology 80 (6), 485-493, 2010

  The Japanese Psychological Association

Keywords

• irony
• echoic mention
• victim of irony

Details

• CRID: 1390001205078645888
• NII Article ID: 130002140460
• NII Book ID: AN00123620
• DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.80.485
• COI: 1:STN:280:DC%2BC3c7ptFaktQ%3D%3D
• ISSN: 18841082
• ISSN: 00215236
• NDL BIB ID: 10590314
• PubMed: 20235473
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/10590314
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I10590314
• Text Lang: ja
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