Using Verbal Irony to Move on with Controversial Issues

• Winston Kwon

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  Winston Kwon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9283-4664

  Strategy Group, University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Scotland, United Kingdom;

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• Ian Clarke

  Ian Clarke

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2357-6286

  Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1HP, United Kingdom;

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• Eero Vaara

  Eero Vaara

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7609-0135

  Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL, United Kingdom

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• Rowan Mackay

  Rowan Mackay

  Strategy Group, University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Scotland, United Kingdom;

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• Ruth Wodak

  Ruth Wodak

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5327-5559

  Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL, United Kingdom

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