{"id":1176,"date":"1984-08-20T00:20:23","date_gmt":"1984-08-19T23:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2018-04-24T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:57:10","slug":"dan-sperber-1984-verbal-irony-pretense-or-echoic-mention-in-journal-of-experimental-psychology-general-vol-113-no-i-130-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/1984_verbal-irony-pretense-or-echoic-mention.pdf\">Dan Sperber (1984) <b>Verbal Irony: Pretense or Echoic Mention?<\/b>. <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 113<\/i>(1), 130-136.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">According to the mention theory of irony put forward by Sperber and Wilson and\u00a0tested by Jorgensen, Miller, and Sperber, verbal ironies are implicit echoic mentions of meaning \u00a0conveying a derogatory attitude to the meaning mentioned. In their\u00a0criticisms, Clark and Gerrig misrepresent mention theory. The pretense theory, which they offer as \u00a0a superior alternative, might provide a plausible description of parody, but it fails to account \u00a0for many types and many properties of irony proper.<\/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\/1176"}],"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=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}