Studying the online comprehension of written sarcasm: an eye-tracking investigation

Theories of sarcasm comprehension make different predictions regarding how various linguistic and contextual factors might affect the processing of written sarcasm. Modular theories predict a processing difficulty associated with sarcastic remarks (the standard pragmatic model), especially unfamilia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turcan, Alexandra
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32036/