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The bicoherence theory of situational irony

dc.contributor.authorShelley, Cameronen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T22:34:39Z
dc.date.available2010-06-01T22:34:39Z
dc.date.issued2001-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationShelley, Cameron (2001). "The bicoherence theory of situational irony." Cognitive Science 25(5): 775-818. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75557>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0364-0213en_US
dc.identifier.issn1551-6709en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75557
dc.description.abstractSituational 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 & Thagard, 1996; Thagard & Verbeurgt, 1998). On this theory, a situation counts as ironic when it is conceived as having a bicoherent conceptual structure, adequate cognitive salience, and evokes an appropriate configuration of emotions. The theory is applied to a corpus of 250 examples of situational ironies gathered automatically from electronic news sources. A useful taxonomy of situational ironies is produced, new predictions and insights into situational irony are discussed, and extensions of the theory to other forms of irony are examined.en_US
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dc.publisherLawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights2001 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.en_US
dc.subject.otherAttributionen_US
dc.subject.otherCoherenceen_US
dc.subject.otherConceptsen_US
dc.subject.otherEmotionen_US
dc.subject.otherIronyen_US
dc.subject.otherSalienceen_US
dc.titleThe bicoherence theory of situational ironyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelNeurosciencesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003, USAen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75557/1/s15516709cog2505_7.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1207/s15516709cog2505_7en_US
dc.identifier.sourceCognitive Scienceen_US
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