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Title: | Context, facial expression and prosody in irony processing |
Authors: | Deliens, Gaétane Antoniou, Kyriakos Clin, Elise Ostashchenko, Ekaterina Kissine, Mikhail |
Major Field of Science: | Medical and Health Sciences |
Field Category: | Health Sciences |
Keywords: | Eye-tracking;Facial expression;Figurative language;Irony;Prosody |
Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2018 |
Source: | Journal of Memory and Language, 2018, vol.99 pp.35-48 |
Volume: | 99 |
Start page: | 35 |
End page: | 48 |
Journal: | Journal of Memory and Language |
Abstract: | While incongruence with the background context is a powerful cue for irony, in spoken conversation ironic utterances often bear non-contextual cues, such as marked tone of voice and/or facial expression. In Experiment 1, we show that ironic prosody and facial expression can be correctly discriminated as such in a categorization task, even though the boundaries between ironic and non-ironic cues are somewhat fuzzy. However, an act-out task (Experiments 2 & 3) reveals that prosody and facial expression are considerably less reliable cues for irony comprehension than contextual incongruence. Reaction time and eye-tracking data indicate that these non-contextual cues entail a trade-off between accuracy and processing speed. These results suggest that interpreters privilege frugal, albeit less reliable pragmatic heuristics over costlier, but more reliable, contextual processing. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/33187 |
ISSN: | 0749596X |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jml.2017.10.001 |
Type: | Article |
Affiliation : | Universite Libre de Bruxelles Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Άρθρα/Articles |
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