Publications

Publication details [#51594]

Pexman, Penny M., Lenka Zdrazilova, Devon McConnachie, Kirby Deater-Deckard and Stephen A. Petrill. 2009. “That Was Smooth, Mom”: Children's Production of Verbal and Gestural Irony. Metaphor and Symbol 24 (4) : 237–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | context | family conversation | gesture | irony

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This preliminary study of children's gestural and verbal irony production in family triads, from respectively 4 and 5 years of age on, demonstrates the importance of social context to the emergence of children's irony production.