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Merel Scholman; Marian Marchal; Vera Demberg – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
The comprehension of connectives is crucial for understanding the discourse relations that make up a text. We studied connective comprehension in English to investigate whether adult comprehenders acquire the meaning and intended use of connectives to a similar extent and how connective features and individual differences impact connective…
Descriptors: Adults, Reading Comprehension, Connected Discourse, Semantics
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Henri Olkoniemi; Diane Mézière; Johanna K. Kaakinen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Eyetracking studies have shown that readers reread ironic phrases when resolving their meaning. Moreover, it has been shown that the timecourse of processing ironic meaning is affected by reader's working memory capacity (WMC). Irony is a context-dependent phenomenon but using traditional eye-movement measures it is difficult to analyze processing…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Individual Differences, Short Term Memory