{"id":1170,"date":"1984-08-20T00:14:38","date_gmt":"1984-08-19T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2018-04-24T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:56:47","slug":"julia-jorgensen-george-miller-dan-sperber-1984-test-of-the-mention-theory-of-irony-in-journal-of-experimental-psychology-general-vol-113-no-i-112-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/1984_jorgensen_miller_a-test-of-the-mention-theory-of-irony.pdf\">Julia Jorgensen, George Miller, Dan Sperber (1984) <b>Test of the Mention Theory of Irony<\/b>. <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 113<\/i>(1), 112-120.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The traditional theory of irony, which assumes that an ironist uses a figurative\u00a0meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the utterance, is shown to be inadequate;\u00a0an alternative theory is presented, which assumes that the ironist mentions the\u00a0literal meaning of the utterance and expresses an attitude toward it. Although the\u00a0implications for understanding irony are difficult to test, the two theories do make\u00a0testable predictions about the conditions under which irony is perceived: The mention\u00a0theory requires antecedent material for the ironist to mention, whereas the standard\u00a0theory does not. A reading comprehension test was conducted involving anecdotes\u00a0that satisfied the traditional criterion for irony but could include or omit antecedents\u00a0for echoic mention. Results favored the mention theory of irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}