Task Effects in Irony Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language.
Irony comprehension involves understanding implicit attitudes communicated on top of the explicit, literal meaning. Because of the double-binding stemming from the explicit–implicit incongruity, irony is assumed to be cognitively taxing when communicated in the native language (NL), and even more so...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 833 - 851 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2023
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