Children's Understanding of Social-Cognitive and Social-Communicative Aspects of Discourse Irony

Autor/inn/en	Filippova, Eva; Astington, Janet Wilde
Titel	Children's Understanding of Social-Cognitive and Social-Communicative Aspects of Discourse Irony
Quelle	In: Child Development, 81 (2010) 3, S.913-928 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01442.x
Schlagwörter	Figurative Language; Theory Practice Relationship; Social Cognition; Interpersonal Competence; Children; Child Development; Comparative Analysis; Adults; Intention; Beliefs; Motivation; Age Differences; Language Processing; Case Studies; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Soziale Kognition; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindesentwicklung; Belief; Glaube; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Sprachverarbeitung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	To bridge the social-reasoning focus of developmental research on irony understanding and the pragmatic focus of research with adult populations, this cross-sectional study examines 5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds' (n = 72) developing understanding of both social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of discourse irony, when compared with adults (n = 24). Although 5-year-olds lag behind the other age groups in their reasoning about the speaker's meaning, belief, intention, and motivation, adults are consistently superior to children of all ages on these social-cognitive measures. In contrast, limited age-related differences were found in participants' judgment of the social-communicative function of irony (how nice, mean, and funny irony is). The findings help to reconcile previous discrepant claims as to the age when children come to understand irony. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10