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 ...

Say you walk into the office one day and find your team is in a particularly snarky mood. Everyone is cracking sarcastic jokes and saying the opposite of what they really mean. You’d just be thrilled ...

Hypocrisy means contradicting ourselves, being inconsistent, and talking out of both sides of our mouths. But that’s also what irony means. What then distinguishes hypocrisy from irony? A hypocrite ...