Selected Publications

Books
Colston, H. L., & Katz, A. (Eds.). (2005).  Figurative language comprehension:  Social and cultural influences.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Gibbs, R. W., & Colston, H. L. (Eds.). (2007).  Irony in language and thought:  A cognitive science reader.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor & Francis Group.

Chapters
Gibbs, R. W., & Colston, H. L. (2002).  The risks and rewards of ironic communication.  In L. Anolli, R. Ciceri, & G. Riva (Eds.), Say not to say:  New perspectives on miscommunication (pp. 181-194). Amsterdam, Netherlands:  IOS Press.

Gibbs, R. W., & Colston, H. L. (2006).  Figurative language.  In M. Traxler, & M. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd ed., pp. 835-862), Oxford, U.K:  Elsevier.

Colston, H. L., (2007).  What figurative language development reveals about the mind.  In A. C. Schalley, & D. Khlentzos (Eds.), Mental states.  Volume 2:  Language and cognitive structure (pp. 191-212).  Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.

Gibbs, R. W., & Colston, H. L. (2007).  Psycholinguistic aspects of phraseology:  American tradition.  In H. Burger, D. Dobrovolskij, P. Kuhn, & N. Norrick. (Eds.), Phraseologie/Phraseology:  An international handbook of contemporary research.  New York:  de Gruyter.

Journal Articles
Colston, H. L., & O’Brien, J. (2000a).  Contrast and pragmatics in figurative language:  Anything understatement can do, irony can do better.  Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 1557-1583. 

Colston, H. L., & O’Brien, J. (2000b).  Contrast of kind vs. contrast of magnitude:   The pragmatic accomplishments of irony and hyperbole.  Discourse Processes, 30(2), 179-199. 

Colston, H. L. (2000a).  Comprehending speaker intent in rebuttal analogy use:  The role of irony mapping, absurdity comparison and argumentative convention.  Language and Speech, 43(4), 337-354.

Colston, H. L. (2000b).  “Dewey defeats Truman”:  Interpreting ironic restatement.  Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 19(1), 44-63.

Colston, H. L. (2000c).  On necessary conditions for verbal irony comprehension.  Pragmatics & Cognition, 8(2), 277-324.

Colston, H. L., & Gibbs, R. W. (2002).  Are irony and metaphor understood differently?  Metaphor and Symbol, 17(1), 57-80.

Colston, H. L., & Kuiper, M. S. (2002).  Figurative language development research and popular children’s literature:  Why we should know, “Where the Wild Things Are”.  Metaphor and Symbol, 17(1), 21-43.

Colston, H. L. (2002a).  Contrast and assimilation in verbal irony.  Journal of Pragmatics, 34, 111-142.

Colston, H. L. (2002b).  Pragmatic justifications for nonliteral gratitude acknowledgments:  “Oh sure, anytime”.  Metaphor and Symbol, 17(3), 205-226.

Colston, H. L. (2002c).  We think what we are:  Embodiment in mental imagery.  Journal of Mental Imagery, 26(1&2), 47-50.

Colston, H. L., & Lee, S. Y. (2004).  Gender differences in verbal irony use.  Metaphor and Symbol, 19(4), 289-306.

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