Why is sarcasm so difficult to detect in texts and emails?
- Written by Sara Peters, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Newberry College
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Chances are you thought that last statement might be sarcasm. Sarcasm, as linguist Robert Gibbs noted, includes “words used to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning of a sentence.”...
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