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Publication details [#44576]

Pexman, Penny M., Melanie Glenwright, Suzanne Hala, Stacey L. Kowbel and Sara Jungen. 2006. Children's Use of Trait Information in Understanding Verbal Irony. Metaphor and Symbol 21 (1) : 39–60.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
child | irony | personality | understanding | verbal behavior
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
Journal WWW
www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper examines whether information about a speaker's personality affects children's interpretations and processing of verbal irony.