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An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Written Sarcasm Comprehension: The Roles of Familiarity and Context
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Direct link?urcan, Alexandra; Filik, Ruth – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
This article addresses a current theoretical debate between the standard pragmatic model, the graded salience hypothesis, and the implicit display theory, by investigating the roles of the context and of the properties of the sarcastic utterance itself in the comprehension of a sarcastic remark. Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted where we…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Familiarity, Language Processing, Language Usage
Tabossi, Patrizia; Fanari, Rachele; Wolf, Kinou – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Three experiments tested the main claims of the idiom decomposition hypothesis: People have clear intuitions on the semantic compositionality of idiomatic expressions, which determines the syntactic behavior of these expressions and how they are recognized. Experiment 1 showed that intuitions are clear only for a very restricted number of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Semiotics, Language Processing
