When Sugar-Coated Words Taste Dry: The Relationship between Gender, Anxiety, and Response to Irony.

ABSTRACT: This article approaches the question of mocking compliments and ironic praise from an interactional gender perspective. A statement such as "You're a real genius!" could easily be interpreted as a literal compliment, as playful humor or as an offensive insult. We investigate this thin line in the use of irony among adult men and women. The research introduces an interactional approach to irony, through the lens of gender stereotype bias. The main question concerns the impact of individual differences and gender effect on the perception and production of ironic comments. Irony Processing Task (IPT), developed by Milanowicz (2016), was applied in order to study the production and perception of ironic criticism and ironic praise in adult males and females. It is a rare case of a study measuri

SUBMITTER: Milanowicz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5742492 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature