<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Processing of figurative (nonliteral) language is the focus of this special issue of <italic>Psychology of Language and Communication</italic>. The main theme is irony, which has been called “the ethos of our times” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_plc-2016-0012_ref_007_w2aab2b8b6b1b7b1ab1ab7Aa">Wampole, 2012</xref>). The texts presented here consider irony from many different angles, thus expanding the psycholinguistic perspective to include problems of key importance for understanding the phenomenon. All of these texts open up new questions on irony comprehension and production. The next special issue (to be published in 2017) will discuss research on a different type of nonliteral language: metaphors.</p></abstract>

Processing of figurative (nonliteral) language is the focus of this special issue of Psychology of Language and Communication. The main theme is irony, which has been called “the ethos of our times” (Wampole, 2012). The texts presented here consider irony from many different angles, thus expanding the psycholinguistic perspective to include problems of key importance for understanding the phenomenon. All of these texts open up new questions on irony comprehension and production. The next special issue (to be published in 2017) will discuss research on a different type of nonliteral language: metaphors.

Figurative Language Processing: Irony. Introduction to the Issue

Psychology of Language and Communication

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Processing of figurative (nonliteral) language is the focus of this special issue of Psychology of Language and Communication. The main theme is irony, which...

Figurative Language Processing: Irony. Introduction to the Issue

Published Online: Feb 23, 2017

Page range: 193 - 198

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2016-0012

Keywords
nonliteral language, irony, participant structure, structure of participation

© 2016 Barbara Bokus et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figurative Language Processing: Irony. Introduction to the Issue

Published Online: Feb 23, 2017

Page range: 193 - 198

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2016-0012

Keywordsnonliteral language, irony, participant structure, structure of participation

© 2016 Barbara Bokus et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
nonliteral language, irony, participant structure, structure of participation