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Children's Understanding of Social-Cognitive and Social-Communicative Aspects of Discourse Irony
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Filippova, Eva; Astington, Janet Wilde – Child Development, 2010
To bridge the social-reasoning focus of developmental research on irony understanding and the pragmatic focus of research with adult populations, this cross-sectional study examines 5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds' (n = 72) developing understanding of both social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of discourse irony, when compared with adults (n =…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Theory Practice Relationship, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Competence
Contextual Integration and Utterance Interpretation: The Ability of Children and Adults to Interpret Sarcastic Utterances.
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1982
Examines whether young children and adults are able to interpret sarcastic utterances and whether placements of contextual information before or after the utterance differentially affect interpretation. Results obtained from first and third graders and from college students indicated that different placements of contextual information do affect…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Communication Skills
Sources of Difficulty in the Young Child's Understanding of Metaphorical Language.
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Vosniadou, Stella; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports three experiments which examined preschool, first-grade, and third-grade children's understanding of metaphorical language. Subjects acted out short stories which ended in metaphorical sentences by using toys. Predictability of the story endings and the complexity of the metaphorical sentences are found to affect metaphor comprehension.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Figurative Language