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2. One person, a linguist by the name of John Haiman from Macalester College, wrote a book on exactly this subject (Chin 2014). The book, entitled “Talk is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation and the Evolution of Language” is basically a study of how and why sarcasm has seemed to become our primary mode of language (Chin 2014). Basically Haiman explains that one such reason that sarcasm has become so popular is that it causes our brains to work(Chin 2014). As sarcasm is a language of loops and turns as opposed to a simple straight forward rendition of communication, it makes us look for greater meaning in a person’s words (Chin 2014).

References

Chin, Richard. “The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right.” Smithsonian. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-of-sarcasm-yeah-right-25038/?no-ist