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Publication Date: 1990
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How Children Understand Sarcasm: The Role of Context and Intonation.
Capelli, Carol A.; And Others
Child Development, v61 n6 p1824-41 Dec 1990
Two experiments compared the abilities of third and sixth graders and adults to recognize sarcasm given context and intonation cues. Children recognized sarcasm only when given a speaker's sarcastic intonation cue, even when context strongly indicated a nonliteral interpretation. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Cues, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6, Interpretive Skills, Intonation, Irony, Prompting, Semantics
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Language: English
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