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Chen,Y. (2023). How to Understand Overtones: Mental Mechanisms and Influencing Factors of Irony Comprehension. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,84-88.
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References
[1]. Attardo, S. (2000). Irony as relevant inappropriateness. Journal of pragmatics, 32(6):793-826.
[2]. Wilson, D. (2013). Irony comprehension: A developmental perspective. Journal of pragmatics, 59:40-56.
[3]. Zajączkowska, M., Abbot-Smith, K. (2020). “Sure I’ll help—I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing at school all day”: Cognitive flexibility and child irony interpretation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 199:104942.
[4]. Gibbs, R. W., Colston, H. L. (Eds.). (2007). Irony in language and thought: A cognitive science reader. Psychology Press.
[5]. Dews, S., Kaplan, J., Winner, E. (1995). Why not say it directly? The social functions of irony. Discourse processes, 19(3): 347-367.
[6]. Zhang, M. Zhang, J. J. (2006) Effects of intonation on 6 to 10-year-old children’s cognition of different types of irony. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 38(2):197-206.
[7]. Baptista, N. I., Manfredi, M., Boggio, P. S. (2018). Medial prefrontal cortex stimulation modulates irony processing as indexed by the N400. Social neuroscience, 13(4):495-510.
[8]. Dews S. Winner E, Kaplan J, et al. (1996) Children’s understanding of the meaning and functions of verbal irony. Child Development, 67(6): 3071-3085.
[9]. Zhang, D. (2019). Roles of Sentence Final Particles and Prosody in Irony Comprehension of ASD Children. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27(1):18-23.
[10]. Fabry, R. E. (2021). Getting it: A predictive processing approach to irony comprehension. Synthese,198(7): 6455-6489.
[11]. Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and Conversation. In Syntax and Semantics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 41-58.
[12]. Wilson, D., Sperber, D. (2002). Relevance theory. In G. Ward and L. Horn (Eds) Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell.
[13]. Olkoniemi, H., Kaakinen, J. K. (2021). Processing of irony in text: A systematic review of eye-tracking studies. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 75(2): 99–106.
[14]. Winner, E., Leekam, S. (1991). Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second‐order intention. British journal of developmental psychology, 9(2): 257-270.
[15]. Kreuz, R. J., Glucksberg, S. (1989). How to be sarcastic: The echoic reminder theory of verbal irony. Journal of experimental psychology: General: 118(4), 374.
[16]. Wilson, D. (2006). The pragmatics of verbal irony: Echo or pretence?. Lingua, 116(10):1722-1743.
[17]. Clark, H. H., Gerrig, R. J. (1984). On the pretense theory of irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113(1): 121–126.
[18]. Giora, R. (1995). On irony and negation. Discourse Processes, 19(2): 239-264.
[19]. Kumon-Nakamura, S., Glucksberg, S., & Brown, M. (1995). How about another piece of pie: The allusional pretense theory of discourse irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General: 124(1), 3.
[20]. Winner, E., Leekam, S. (1991). Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second‐order intention. British journal of developmental psychology, 9(2): 257-270.
[21]. Giora, R. (1999). On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language. Journal of pragmatics, 31(7): 919-929.
[22]. Dews, S., Winner, E., Kaplan, J., Rosenblatt, E., Hunt, M., Lim, K., ...Smarsh, B. (1996). Children's understanding of the meaning and functions of verbal irony. Child development, 67(6): 3071-3085.
[23]. Ackerman, B. P. (1986). Children's sensitivity to comprehension failure in interpreting a nonliteral use of an utterance. Child Development, 485-497.
[24]. Wang, S. A. (2016). The Effect of Language Proficiency on Irony Comprehension. Journal of HUBEI Correspondence University, 29(20): 85-86.
[25]. Ellis, R., Zhu, Y., Shintani, N., & Roever, C. (2021). A study of Chinese learners’ ability to comprehend irony. Journal of Pragmatics, 172:7-20.
[26]. Ding, F., Wu, W.,(2016). The influence of sentence collocation and irony types on pupils’ irony comprehension in different contexts. Youth and Adolescent Studies, 5: 29-34.
[27]. Slugoski, B. R., Turnbull, W. (1988). Cruel to be kind and kind to be cruel: Sarcasm, banter and social relations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 7(2): 101-121.