Children's Perceptions of the Social Functions of Verbal Irony

By Melanie Harris, Penny M. Pexman. 2003

135 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/098983971d2c995ab64a7cef30b4e84c8f31252e

How researchers see this paper

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In Education

1. Melanie R. Glenwright
2. Albert N. Katz
3. Penny M. Pexman

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Albert N. Katz
2. Penny M. Pexman
3. Andrea Bowes
4. Melanie R. Glenwright
5. John D. Campbell
6. Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

In Social Psychology

1. Penny M. Pexman
2. Melanie R. Glenwright
3. Andrea Bowes
4. Albert N. Katz

Citations in the corpus

• When Sarcasm Stings (2011, background): “The questions (from Dews et al., 1995; Harris & Pexman, 2003; Jorgensen, 1996; Matthews et al., 2006) tapped both speaker intent and social impression.”
• How do typically developing children grasp the meaning of verbal irony (2007, methodology): “Certainly, children tend to find speaker belief judgments easier for ironic criticisms than for ironic compliments in cases where an explicit echo is not provided for ironic statements (de Groot et al., 1995; Hancock et al., 2000; Harris & Pexman, 2003 ) and we would predict the same tendency for s”