Discourse Factors That Influence Online Reading of Metaphor and Irony

By Penny M. Pexman, Todd R Ferretti, Albert N. Katz. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “Fifth, a dynamical perspective on metaphor also can account for a wide variety of reading time results, showing ways in which verbal metaphors can either be processed quickly or more slowly given the specific dynamics operating within an experiment, for individual subjects at different points in the”
Are There Necessary Conditions for Inducing a Sense of Sarcastic Irony? (2012, background): “Appropriate hints would involve who made the comment (see, for instance Pexman, Ferretti and Katz, 2000 ), whether the utterance is supported by the environmental or discourse context, the manner in which it is given and the like.”
Does understanding negation entail affirmation?: An examination of negated metaphors (2006, background): “A negated metaphor, e.g., Her marriage wasn’t an anchor can be understood as expressing a very shaky marriage (see Giora et al., 2005b, for an extended discussion of irony and negation; see Pexman et al., 2000, for factors that prompt ironic readings in metaphors).”
Expecting Irony: Context Versus Salience-Based Effects (2007, background): “In other studies, ironies took longer to process than (salience-based) conventional metaphors (Colston & Gibbs, 2002; Pexman et al., 2000), or (salience-based) literal controls (Pexman et al., 2000).”
Literal vs. figurative language: Different or equal? (2002, background): “…nonsalient ironic meanings) than when embedded in metaphor inducing contexts (activating salient metaphoric meanings) (Gibbs, 1998: 177–180; Pexman et al., 2000) Idioms (Didn’t spill the beans) took longer to read when embedded in literally biasing contexts (which invite their less…”