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The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience; irony's impact (both personal and in social life); irony in linguistic communication; irony and affect, and irony in expressive contexts. Contributions come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, computer science, film and media studies, and music, making this a truly cross-disciplinary collection of benefit to a wide range of students and researchers.

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Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is an independent cognitive scientist and former Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. His research interests focus on embodied cognition, pragmatics, and figurative language. He is the author of many books, including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding (1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999), Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2006), Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphor in Human Life (2017), and Interpreting Figurative Meaning (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (2008). Herbert L. Colston is a Professor at the University of Alberta, USA. His research involves figurativity broadly construed, including its social and embodied underpinnings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Metaphor & Symbol (Taylor & Francis Journal) and co-Editor of Figurative Thought and Language (John Benjamins Book Series). His most recent book is How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy (2019).

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