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Direct linkvan Mulken, Margot; Burgers, Christian; van der Plas, Bram – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Comprehension is an important factor in the functioning of irony. Readers who are unaware of the irony in an utterance are "sheep," whereas readers who understand the irony are "wolves" (Gibbs & Izett, 2005). Factors that may impact on the attitude toward irony not only include comprehension, but agreement (agreeing with…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Comprehension, Attitudes, Group Membership
Otten, Marte; Van Berkum, Jos J. A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Language is an intrinsically open-ended system. This fact has led to the widely shared assumption that readers and listeners do not predict upcoming words, at least not in a way that goes beyond simple priming between words. Recent evidence, however, suggests that readers and listeners do anticipate upcoming words "on the fly" as a text…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Processing, Priming, Foreign Countries
