Testing Psycholinguistic Theories of Irony Comprehension

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Philologischen, Philosophischen und Wirtschafts - und Verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Fakulta), language: English, abstract: Making sense of nonliteral language, like irony, has been a hot topic in pragmatics and psycholinguistics for quite some time. Since the '70s, there's been an ong...