Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence-Oscar Wilde
Sarcasm refers to the use of caustic words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something.
Sarcasm may employ ambivalence.
Sarcasm it is not necessarily ironic.
Sarcasm is most recognizable in spoken words, and is distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoke.
It is spoken with an undercurrent of irony, by the extreme disproportion of the comment to the situation, and is largely context-dependent.
In sarcasm, ridicule or mockery is used harshly, often crudely and contemptuously, for destructive purposes.
It may be used in an indirect manner, and have the form of irony.
It may be used in the form of a direct statement.
The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflection .
Sarcasm on the surface appears to be appropriate to the situation, but are meant to be taken as meaning the opposite in terms of management.
There is an extremely close connection between sarcasm and irony.
Situations may be ironic, but only people can be sarcastic.
Second, people may be unintentionally ironic, but sarcasm requires intention.
What is essential to sarcasm is that it is overt irony intentionally used by the speaker as a form of verbal aggression.
Sarcasm tends to be a maladaptive coping mechanism for those with unresolved anger or frustrations.
Sarcasm is hostility disguised as humor.
Am occasional sarcastic comment may enliven a conversation, but used too frequently tends to overwhelm the emotional flavor of such conversation
understanding sarcasm can be lacking in some people with certain forms of brain damage, dementia and sometimes autism.
Sarcasm perception has been located by MRI in the right parahippocampal gyrus.
People with damage in the prefrontal cortex have difficulty understanding non-verbal aspects of language like tone.
Sarcasm recognition and expression both require the development of understanding forms of language, especially if sarcasm occurs without a cue or signal, like a sarcastic tone or rolling the eyes.
Sarcasm is felt to be more sophisticated than lying because lying is expressed as early as the age of three, but sarcastic expressions take place much later during development.
Sarcasm is a form of expression of language often including the assertion of a statement that is disbelieved by the expresser,although the intended meaning is different from the sentence meaning.
The recognition of sarcasm without the accompaniment of a cue develops around the beginning of adolescence or later.
Sarcasm involves the expression of an insulting remark that requires the interpreter to understand the negative emotional connotation of the expresser within the context of the situation at hand.
Irony, contrarily, does not include derision, unless it is sarcastic irony.
There is not any standard accepted method to denote irony or sarcasm in written conversation, several forms of punctuation have been proposed.
Sarcasm using harsh ridicule or mockery, is often directly associated with verbal irony, meaning the opposite of what is said, and the two are frequently used together.
Sarcasm is not necessarily ironic by definition, and either element can be used without the other.