Mary Brown
Princeton University
3 Papers
2 Citations
Mary Brown is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Utterance & Conceptual metaphor. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications.
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How about another piece of pie: the allusional pretense theory of discourse irony.
TL;DR: This article found that irony is used primarily to express a speaker's attitude toward the referent of the ironic utterance, while simultaneously fulfilling other goals as well, such as to be humorous, to make a situation less face threatening, and to serve politeness considerations.
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Conceptual metaphors are not automatically accessed during idiom comprehension
TL;DR: It is concluded that conceptual analogies play little, if any, role in idiom comprehension unless people have the time (and motivation) to make considered judgments.