Julia Fuchs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julia Fuchs plays a role.
Articles
2023 ‘Easy Language’ for migrants in France: Looking for linguistic criteria ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
One of the target groups of Easy Language, a comprehensibility enhanced variety of a natural language, are migrants who have difficulties with the standard language of the host country. However, regarding French Easy Language, evidence-based linguistic criteria are lacking. Therefore, the… read more
2023 40 years of research into children’s irony comprehension: A review Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
Children’s ability to understand irony is believed to be acquired late compared to other pragmatic skills. To explore this assertion, this article presents a review of four decades of research, to determine the age at which children actually do become capable of understanding ironic utterances,… read more