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Publication details [#64780]

Giora, Rachel, Ofer Fein, Orna Peleg and Adi Cholev. 2018. On the superiority of defaultness: Hemispheric perspectives of processing negative and affirmative sarcasm. Metaphor and Symbol 33 (3) : 163–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dominance | hypothesis | interpretation | perspective | sarcasm

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Determining defaultness in terms of an unconditioned, automatic reply to a stimulus permits the Defaultness Hypothesis to forecast the speed pre-eminence of default over nondefault counterparts. This paper explored the comparative contribution of the cerebral hemispheres to the rendering of default versus nondefault interpretations (of Hebrew items).