I shall point out how the interaction analysis of different
response types contributes to the development of irony theory.
A look at two data sets (informal conversations among friends and pro- and con-TV-
discussions) provides interesting differences in responses to irony in these contexts.
One important difference in responding appears to depend on whether the irony is
framed and understood as critical or as friendly... displayed 300 characters
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From the format of the responses we
can often access the processing of the ironic (though not always). If there are
responses to the literal meaning and to the implicatum, we can take this as evidence
that principally both the implicated and the literal message is processed. We find five
response types: Responses to the literal, to the implicated, mixed types, just laughter
and ambiguous types which do not allow us to assign a meaning... displayed 300 characters
