Studying Verbal Irony and Sarcasm

1: Introduction, Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Piotr Kalowski, Maria Zajaczkowska.- Part I. Theoretical Considerations on Irony Research.- 2: On Verbal Irony Methods: Giving an Old Dog Some New Tricks, Herbert L. Colston.- 3: A Minimal Account of Irony, A Minimal Account of Irony, Joana Garmendia.- 4: Rethinking (Assumptions About) Irony: The Bilingual Factor, Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman.- Part II. Irony Research - Developmental Perspective.- 5: Experiments on the Development of Irony. Walking Through a Methodological Maze, Ana Milosavljevic.- 6: Verbal Irony and Gossip Appreciation Among Children and Adults in Poland and Canada, Marta Krygier-Bartz, Melanie Glenwright, Penny M. Pexman.- 7: Investigating Irony Comprehension in Children: Methods, Challenges, and Ways Forward, Ingrid Lossius Falkum, Franziska Köder.- 8: The Influence of Intentional and Accidental Moral Transgressions on Children's Understanding of Verbal Irony, Vera Hukker, Simone Sprenger, Petra Hendriks.- Part III. Irony Research - Adult.- 9: The Form and Content of Vignette Stimuli in Irony Research with Adult Participants, Piotr Kalowski, Katarzyna Branowska.- 10: Exploring the Polish Adaptation of the Sarcasm Self-Report Scale Using the Think Aloud Protocol: Three Lessons About Studying Irony Through Questionnaires, Maria Zajaczkowska, Olga Zimna, Malwina Kurzawa, Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak.- 11: Humorous Irony in Female Stand-Up Comedy: A Sociopragmatic Analysis, Esther Linares Bernabéu.- 12: Irony Across Cultures - A Contrastive Analysis of Conceptualizations and Social Functions, Francesca Ervas, Zsuzsanna Schnell.- 13: Examining the Structure of the Sarcasm Self-Report Scale Cross-Culturally: Evidence from Canada, Poland, and Türkiye, Julia Kuczmierowska, Duygu Kandemirci-Bayiz, Büsra Akdeniz, Yasemin Abayhan, Maria Zajaczkowska, Melanie Glenwright, Penny M. Pexman,

Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Ph.D., Institute of Psychology at The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. She studies topics at the intersection of linguistics and psychology, with a special interest in irony.

Piotr Kalowski, Ph.D., University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. His research interests focus on the individual differences in verbal irony.

Maria Zajaczkowska, Ph.D., School of Psychology at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. Verbal irony comprehension and use have always been a major focus of her research interests.