Children's Comprehension of Critical and Complimentary Forms of Verbal Irony

By Jeffrey T. Hancock, P. Dunham, Kelly T. Purdy. 2000

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• Irony comprehension: A developmental perspective (2013, background): “In Hancock et al.’s (2000) ‘Weight-Lifter Story’ (repeated below for convenience), B’s remark You’re really bad at lifting weights was classified as an ironic compliment regardless of whether it was preceded by a boast (I’m good at lifting weights) or an expression of self-doubt (I’m really bad at l”
• Children's Perceptions of the Social Functions of Verbal Irony (2003, background): “This finding might point to the importance of previous experience with ironic speech forms because ironic compliments are used less typically in daily discourse than are ironic criticisms (Gibbs, 2000; Hancock et al., 2000).”