We don’t always recognize irony right away. An interdisciplinary research team at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main found that irony is primarily signaled by moving stress within a sentence. The team’s findings have just been published as an open access article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Oh, that’s nice: How we recognize irony
We don't always recognize irony right away. An interdisciplinary research team at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main found that irony is primarily signaled by moving stress within a sentence. The team's findings have just been published as an open access article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.