You'll Never Believe This: Irony and Hyperbole in Expressing Surprise

• 1 January 1998
• journal article
• Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
• Vol. 27  (4) , 499-513
• https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1023229304509

Abstract

Keywords

• COMMENTARY
• IRONY
• LITERAL
• BELIEVE
• IMPOSSIBLE
• COMPREHEND
• HYPERBOLE
• REALISTICALLY
• SURPRISE EXPRESSED