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Publication details [#56483]

Akimoto, Yoritaka, Shiho Miyazawa and Toshiaki Muramoto. 2012. Comprehension Processes of Verbal Irony: The Effects of Salience, Egocentric Context, and Allocentric Theory of Mind. Metaphor and Symbol 27 (3) : 217–242.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension | irony | saliency | theory of mind

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study examines how the temporally distinct contributions of three information sources, namely salience-based lexical meaning, egocentric context, and allocentric Theory of Mind, affect verbal irony comprehension processes.