It's Fascinating Research : The Cognition of Verbal Irony  

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Pexman, Penny M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 17 no. 04 (Aug. 2008), page 286-290.
Topik: Verbal Irony; Sarcasm; Figurative Language; Parallel Constraint Satisfaction; Communicative Intent; Humor
Fulltext: 10. It's Fascinating Research - The Cognition of Verbal Irony.pdf (174.79KB)

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Verbal irony is nonliteral language that makes salient a discrepancy between expectations and reality. For researchers who study verbal irony, a critical question is: How do we grasp the meaning of ironic language? The parallel-constraint-satisfaction approach holds promise as an answer to this question. By this account, multiple cues to ironic intent, such as tone of voice, incongruity, and knowledge of the speaker, are processed rapidly and in parallel and this information is coordinated with the utterance itself in order to construct a coherent interpretation that is the best fit for the activated information. Recently, research with individuals who struggle with irony comprehension (typically developing children, individuals with autism-spectrum disorder, individuals with brain injury) has provided new clues about the complex process by which ironic meaning is inferred.

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