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Banasik-Jemielniak, Natalia. 2019. Children's Exposure to Irony in the First Four Years of Their Life: What We Learn About the Use of Ironic Comments by Mothers from the Analysis of the Providence Corpus of Childes. Psychology of Language and Communication 23 (1) : 1–13.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
addressee | comment | figurative speech | hyperbole | irony | mother-child conversation | rhetorical question | toddler
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Drawing from the Providence Corpus of Childes, this paper deals with ironic comments in mothers' child-directed speech during the first four years of the child's life. It reveals that the child is often not the actual addressee, but rather the message overhearer. The most common ironic markers in the identified ironic utterances were rhetorical questions and hyperboles.