How about another piece of pie: the allusional pretense theory of discourse irony.

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Journal of experimental psychology. General

• Publication date

  1995-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037//0096-3445.124.1.3PMID 7897341
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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