Theories of meaning propose that listeners understand a speaker's implicit meaning thanks
to mutually assumed norms of conversation that take into account what the speaker has …

Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprising failures of
perspective‐taking in communication, suggesting that perspective‐taking may be relatively …

A hallmark of human language is the ability to effectively and efficiently convey contextually
relevant information. One theory for how humans reason about language is presented in the …

The smiling emoji has been claimed to be a marker of sarcastic intention among young
Chinese users in computer-mediated communication. However, it is not well understood …

Implicatures serve as an important testing ground for examining the process of integrating
semantic and pragmatic information. Starting with Bott & Noveck (2004), several studies …

In a seminal study, Bott & Noveck (2004) found that the computation of the scalar inference
of 'some'implying 'not all'was associated with increased sentence verification times …

Using self-paced reading, the present study compared native English and adult L1-Korean–
L2-English speakers' processing behaviors during online comprehension of …

We present an eye-tracking experiment examining moment-to-moment processes
underlying the comprehension of emoticons. Younger (18–30) and older (65+) participants …

Irony is a heavily context-dependent pragmatic phenomenon. But what is it about context
that facilitates or blocks irony comprehension? Based on the echoic account, we suggest …

This article addresses a current theoretical debate between modular and interactive
accounts of sarcasm processing, by investigating the role of context (specifically, knowing …