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Shelly Dews

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8

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1995

Active since

Affiliations

Boston College(Current)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Zero Emissions Resource Organisation

University of California, Berkeley

Shelly Dews is an author at Boston College specializing in language studies, psycholinguistics, and linguistics.

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LanguageLinguisticsPsycholinguisticsPragmaticsParalinguisticsDiscourse AnalysisPhilosophy Of LanguageRhetoricSemanticsSocial Cognition

Publications per year

1995–2000

8

Publications

8

Why not say it directly? The social functions of irony

Shelly Dews, Joan Kaplan, Ellen Winner · Discourse Processes · 1995 · 361 citations

Social Psychology, Social Payoffs, Rhetoric +22

Muting the Meaning A Social Function of Irony

Shelly Dews, Ellen Winner · Metaphor and Symbolic Activity · 1995 · 322 citations

Ironic Compliment, Social Psychology, Empathy +20

Obligatory Processing of the Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances: Further Evidence

John Schwoebel, Shelly Dews, Ellen Winner et al. · Metaphor and Symbol · 2000 · 205 citations

Semantic Processing, Psycholinguistics, Rhetoric +25

Obligatory processing of literal and nonliteral meanings in verbal irony

Shelly Dews, Ellen Winner · Journal of Pragmatics · 1999 · 162 citations

Syntax, Semantic Interpretation, Psycholinguistics +7

Children's Understanding of the Meaning and Functions of Verbal Irony

Shelly Dews, Ellen Winner, Joan C. Kaplan et al. · Child Development · 1996 · 159 citations

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