Quotation marks and the processing of irony in English: evidence from a reading time study
Quotation marks are used for different purposes in language, one of which is to signal that something has to be interpreted in an ironic way, as in the utterance What a “nice” day! said on a rainy and cold day. The present contribution describes a reading time experiment in which we analyzed the pro...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0079 |