Many of us use sarcasm in everyday communication for a variety of reasons. For example, it can allow one to save face, blunt a rude comment, and many other possibilities (see, for example, Jorgensen, ...

Emojis help millions of humans inject emotional nuance into their online conversation every day. They let your friends, family and lovers know that a critical remark was meant in jest or that what ...

Sarcasm and the Internet go hand in hand. You certainly can’t have one without the other. But for so long, we’ve had to express our sarcasm with weird tags and fonts, which made being sarcastic such a ...

Maybe Mary Helen Immordino-Yang would get clearer results in her studies of people with half a brain (12 July, p 44) if she drew a clearer distinction between phenomena purely to do with intonation or ...

Scroll through Twitter and you’ll find plenty of sarcastic comments—not to mention lots of cases where sarcasm apparently went straight over someone’s head. Luckily, an algorithm MIT researchers ...