The study of sarcasm and verbal irony recognition integrates research from linguistics, cognitive neuroscience and psychology to elucidate how humans decode subtle non-literal meanings in ...

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

From William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “The Book of Mormon,” the power of irony transcends genres and ...

As the great British comic, Ricky Gervais once implied, England and America may not so much be divided by a common tongue, but by their distinctive use (and in the case of the Brits, their abuse) of ...

Standing just under a foot tall, Irony Man looks unassuming, if not a bit goofy. The small robot was created by German researchers to improve the experience humans have interacting with robots. To ...