A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension

Benjamin Weissman; Darren Tanner

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0201727

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A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension

Benjamin Weissman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bpweiss2@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-8072

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Darren Tanner

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension

Benjamin Weissman,
Darren Tanner

Published: August 15, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201727

About the Authors

Benjamin Weissman

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bpweiss2@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-8072

Darren Tanner

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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