Annotated Bibliography

Blasko, Dawn, Albert Katz, and Kazmerski Victoria. Saying What You Don't Mean: Social Influences on Sarcastic Language Processing. N.p.: Blackwell, 2012. Print.

This book talks a lot about sarcasm, and how it compares to literal contexts.  It does studies to show what the brain looks like, and how it reacts to both literal and sarcastic comments.  It talks about how people interpret different types of comments, and all the factors that contribute to it.  It consists of both social and cultural factors, including things like gender, and occupation.  The main point this book looks at is that sarcasm is used when you say one thing but actually mean something else, and how that affects communication.  I would consider this book a reliable source because it has a lot of quality information that relates to my topic.  Some of the information in this book is confusing to understand, such as the pictures and descriptions of the brain.  Along with that, much of the information is very scattered throughout the book making it difficult to connect everything.   Besides that I think this will be a useful source in my final paper.

Camp, Elisabeth. Sarcasm, Pretense, and The Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction. N.p.: Sage  Productions,2004. Print.

This document talks a lot about the history of sarcasm, and where the “theory” of sarcasm stemmed from.   It looks at sarcasm from different points of view, and compares all of them together.  It says that sarcasm may not be a type of speaker meaning at all, but more of an attitude towards something.  This book looks at sarcasm in a different way than all the other sources I have looked at, which makes this very interesting.  The document is very biased though, which makes it harder to use with my topic and overall argument.  Overall, I feel as if I can get some many good points from this source that will work well in my final paper.

 

Dauphin, Valerie. "APPENDIX C." SARCASM IN RELATIONSHIPS. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2012.

This article talks about sarcasm as a whole, but also goes in slight detail about the different forms of sarcasm and how we use it.  It goes into good detail about sarcasm in relationships, especially between males and females.  The author did studies between genders on things such as which gender uses sarcasm more, how it affects romantic relationships, and how males/females react to it.  They also compared if sarcasm was used more between younger or older people.  I found this source very useful because it included the exact information that I needed.  The studies shown on this website were very easy to understand, and very reliable.  I also liked this source because it wasn’t biased at all, and everything in this source was factual.  I feel like this will be my main source of information for my final paper.

 

Haiman, John. Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language. Oxford: University,1998. Print.

This book shows and talks about language as a whole, and how sarcasm plays a role in it.  It goes in great detail about how sarcasm is considered “cheap talk”, and how it correlates with other types of language.  The author uses many examples of sarcasm in literature, and how it connects to mass media today.  He does a very good job of tying everything together, and making good connections between opposites.   The book is a strong resource because it is written with the knowledge of language, and that plays a huge role in it.  The only thing I didn’t like was that part of the authors writing had a sarcastic tone to it, which made some things harder to understand.  I feel as it might be a tough source to use on my final paper because the use of sarcasm in it.

 Note: I copied and pasted this from Word where the sources were indented, and it is not showing up the same.  I have tried to fix it on here but it will not let me do it without messing up the whole source. Sorry, just letting you know!