We carried out a systematic review of psycholinguistic, empirical, quantitative studies on
verbal irony use and individual differences (ie psychological, not demographic, traits that …

A significant part of everyday verbal communication consists of nonliteral language,
including irony (Gibbs 2000). Efficient irony use can serve a wide range of pragmatic goals …

Mentalizing, a dynamic form of social cognition, is strengthened by language experience.
Past research has found that bilingual children and adults outperform monolinguals on …

Verbal irony is pervasive in social interaction, presumably because it can be used to achieve
a number of communicative goals and effects. In general, verbal irony has a reputation for …

Many studies in the psycholinguistics of irony with adult participants involve presenting them
with a series of specially prepared vignettes—short text stories describing a social situation …

In this chapter, we were tasked to address the question,“What should every cognitive
psychologist know about bilingualism?” While there are many potential ways of …

Diverse bilingual experiences have implications for language comprehension, including
pragmatic elements such as verbal irony. Irony comprehension is shaped by an interplay of …

Récemment, les composantes essentielles du traitement de l'ironie (par exemple, le
raisonnement de l'état mental, le contrôle exécutif et la conscience métalinguistique) ont été …

This study examined how self-reported sarcasm use is related to individual differences in
non-Western adults. A sample of 329 Turkish speakers of high socioeconomic status …

Very little is known about the processes underlying second language (L2) speakers'
understanding of written metaphors and similes. Moreover, most of the theories on figurative …