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Peer reviewedColston, Herbert L. – Discourse Processes, 1997
Reports results of four experiments in which undergraduate students rated the degree of condemnation in critical remarks. Shows that ironic criticism in many cases is used to enhance rather than to dilute condemnation. Notes significant implications for both pragmatic and processing theories of verbal irony. (SR)
Descriptors: Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Irony
Peer reviewedGiuliani, Vittoria; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1987
Discusses two studies in Italian which (1) used texts that varied along a number of stylistic dimensions and (2) tested the generalizability of the recent research which suggests that recognition memory for verbatim material depends in part on the role played by a given form in the discourse as a whole. (NKA)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Form Classes (Languages), Language Attitudes, Language Research
