"Wonderful! We've just missed the bus." - Parental use of irony and children's irony comprehension.

Irony is one of the linguistic means in which intended and expressed meaning diverge. It serves social-communicative functions, requires the understanding of the speaker's mental state and its comprehension takes place at an advanced stage of language acquisition. In the present study, we inves...

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Main Authors: Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Sandra Bosacki, Anna Mitrowska, Diana Wyrębek Walters, Katarzyna Wisiecka, Natalia Ewelina Copeland, Lara Wieland, Ljiljana Popovic, Jovana Piper, Aleksandra Siemieniuk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228538