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Pragmatics and Theory of Mind across cultures. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Taumoepeau M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Theory of Mind Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

open access: yesBehav Sci (Basel)
Martín L   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Verbal irony use in personal blogs

Behaviour and Information Technology, 2013
Blogs are a widely growing form of computer-mediated communication used to achieve various personal and professional communicative goals. In the present study, we examined previously posted entries from 71 regular bloggers. We examined the blogs for the use of five forms of verbal irony: hyperbole, understatement, rhetorical question, sarcasm and ...
Penny Pexman, Alastair J Gill
exaly   +2 more sources

Contrast and assimilation in verbal irony

Journal of Pragmatics, 2002
The study investigated a potential link between patterns of perceptual/cognitive biasing effects and interpretation effects in figurative language. Following a recent line of psycholinguistic research that theoretically introduced and empirically verified a predictive relationship between perceptual contrast effects and the pragmatic functions of ...
exaly   +2 more sources

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