The development of complex metarepresentational reasoning: The case of situational irony

Lucariello, Joan; Mindolovich, Catherine

doi:10.1016/0885-2014(95)90026-8

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“…As they mature, children learn to perform more subtle inferences until they reach the levels of complex irony. Lucariello and Mindolovich (1995), for example, carried out a study on the ability of six-and eight-year-olds to provide ironic endings to unfinished stories. The authors suggested that the recognition and construction of ironic events involve the metarepresentational skill of manipulating event representations.…”

Section: Length Of the Inferential Chain : Simple And Complex Communimentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicative abilities in children: An assessment through different phenomena and expressive means

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Previous studies on children's pragmatic abilities have tended to focus on just one pragmatic phenomenon and one expressive means at a time, mainly concentrating on comprehension, and overlooking the production side. We assessed both comprehension and production in relation to several pragmatic phenomena (simple and complex standard communication acts, irony, and deceit) and several expressive means (linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic). Our study involved 390 Italian-speaking children divided into three age groups: 5;0-5;6, 6;6-7;0, and 8;0-8;6. Children's performance on all tasks improved with their age. Within each age group, children responded more accurately to tasks involving standard communication than to those involving deceit and irony, across all expressive means and for both comprehension and production. Within each pragmatic phenomenon, children responded more accurately to simple acts than to complex ones, regardless of age group and expressive means, i.e., linguistic or extralinguistic. Overall results fit well with the Cognitive Pragmatics theory (Bara, 2010).

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Section: Length Of the Inferential Chain : Simple And Complex Communimentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicative abilities in children: An assessment through different phenomena and expressive means

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“…These two forms of communication involve explicit inferences about others' beliefs, in the case of deceit in order to manipulate them according to one's goals, in the case of irony in order to exploit them for conversational aims. An element in favor of this point of view is that developmental literature shows that young children are unable to understand these two communicative forms (as regards deceit see for instance Leekman, 1992;Peskin, 1992;Sodian, 1991; as regards irony see Lucariello & Mindolovich, 1995;Winner, 1988).…”

Section: Action Communication and The Development Of The Theory Of Mindmentioning

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Is a naturalistic theory of communication possible?

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2010

Cognitive Systems Research

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“…The upper level of irony allows the observer of irony, in this case his reader, to determine and reconstruct the irony in their perception and judgment (Miller, 2019). Thus, Lucariello and Mindolovich (1995) give the alternative for this double layered irony. They show the importance of twisted one's knowledge to yield ironic situations (Lucariello & Mindolovich, 1995).…”

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Problematizing Situational Irony: A Critical Study on Hardy’s An Imaginative Woman

Qusnaini

Amri

Fariha

2021

JoLLA

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The purpose of this paper is to comprehend how situational irony in Thomas Hardy’s short fiction entitled An Imaginative Woman conceptualized a tension of irony in readers’ perceptiveness. To this aim, this study tries to examine the relation among aspects: the story plot, characterizations, focalizations, and narrator’s comments. The narration of this short story shows there are two representation levels of irony: (1) the story level which contains: the sequence of Ella’s ironic events and portrayal of victimized characters; (2) the narrative level consists of: numerous focalizations that are entangled with formulation of perspective and narrator’s intrusive comments that becomes the embodiment of narrator’s unreliability. This paper suggests that situational irony signifies the dynamic strategy of narrative in order to manifest the tension of irony within the story and its representation. Additionally, this strategy emphasizes readers’ compatibility with the irony of the narrative. Keywords: narrative; situational irony; focalization; intrusive narrator Abstrak: Makalah ini bertujuan untuk memahami bagaimana ironi situasional dalam cerita pendek An Imaginative Woman karya Thomas Hardy mengkonseptualisasikan ketegangan ironi dalam persepsi pembaca. Untuk itu, penelitian ini mencoba mengkaji secara kritis hubungan antar aspek berikut: alur cerita, penokohan, fokalisasi, dan komentar narator. Narasi cerpen ini menunjukkan terdapat dua tingkat dalam representasi ironi: (1) tingkat cerita, yakni memuat: urutan peristiwa ironis yang terjadi terhadap Ella dan penggambaran karakter yang dijadikan korban; (2) tingkat naratif, terdiri dari: beberapa macam fokalisasi yang berhubungan dengan perumusan perspektif dan komentar narator yang mengganggu sebagai perwujudan ketidakpercayaan pada narator. Makalah ini menunjukkan bahwa ironi situasional menandakan kedinamisan strategi dalam narasi dalam mewujudkan ketegangan ironi baik di dalam cerita maupun cara merepresentasikan cerita. Selain itu, strategi ini menekankan kompatibilitas pembaca yang berperan penting untuk menjangkau ironi narasi. Kata kunci: naratif; ironi situasional; fokalisasi; intrusi narrator

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The development of complex metarepresentational reasoning: The case of situational irony

Cited by 35 publications

References 15 publications

Communicative abilities in children: An assessment through different phenomena and expressive means

Communicative abilities in children: An assessment through different phenomena and expressive means

Is a naturalistic theory of communication possible?

Problematizing Situational Irony: A Critical Study on Hardy’s An Imaginative Woman

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