THE ANATOMY OF SARCASM


	THE ANATOMY OF SARCASM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8f3c2c3d-c438-4cdf-9444-a3bdfa414595/91C48EF5-C215-4B15-9068-09206AD580A8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html" href="http://www.apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.apa.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html"><P>WASHINGTON — The ability to comprehend sarcasm depends upon a carefully 
  orchestrated sequence of complex cognitive skills based in specific parts of 
  the brain. <EM>Yeah, right, and I’m the Tooth Fairy.</EM> But it’s 
  true: New research details an “anatomy of sarcasm” that explains 
  how the mind puts sharp-tongued words into context. The findings appear in the 
  May issue of <EM>Neuropsychology,</EM> published by the American Psychological 
  Association (APA). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html"><P>The Israeli psychologists who conducted the research explain that for sarcasm 
  to score, listeners must grasp the speaker’s intentions in the context 
  of the situation. This calls for sophisticated social thinking and “theory 
  of mind,” or whether we understand that everyone thinks different thoughts. 
  As an example of what happens when “theory of mind” is limited or 
  missing, autistic children have problems interpreting irony, the more general 
  category of social communication into which sarcasm falls.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/91C48EF5-C215-4B15-9068-09206AD580A8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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