Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Discourse Processes Pub Date : 2022-12-02 DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2022.2085475

Alexander A. Johnson, R. Kreuz

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Past research has highlighted some differences in how sarcasm is interpreted by different groups of individuals as well as biases in individuals’ expectations regarding who is more likely to use it (e.g., occupation, gender). However, examinations of patterns of sarcasm production have been much less frequent. The current research extends past work highlighting the relationship between sarcasm production and demographic as well as geographic factors by extending this research to an online sample. Patterns of sarcasm production by age, gender, and geographic region within the United States were explored using three measures. Results revealed that older individuals and females showed decreased sarcasm use and were more likely to define sarcasm as negative, while geographic regions showed variation only in self-reported use. These results highlight some of the many factors associated with sarcasm use and further demonstrate the complexity of this contentious linguistic act.

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跨越时间和空间的讽刺:美国年龄、性别和地区的使用模式

摘要过去的研究强调了不同群体对讽刺的理解存在一些差异，以及个人对谁更有可能使用讽刺（例如，职业、性别）的期望存在偏见。然而，对讽刺产生模式的研究却很少。目前的研究通过将这项研究扩展到一个在线样本，扩展了过去的工作，强调了讽刺的产生与人口统计学和地理因素之间的关系。通过三项测量，探讨了美国境内按年龄、性别和地理区域划分的讽刺语产生模式。结果显示，老年人和女性对讽刺的使用减少，更有可能将讽刺定义为负面，而地理区域仅在自我报告的使用方面存在差异。这些结果突出了与讽刺使用相关的许多因素中的一些，并进一步证明了这种有争议的语言行为的复杂性。

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来源期刊

Discourse Processes Multiple-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.