36.1452, FYI: DiscoMatiX hosts online talk by Diana Mazzarella, "Understanding irony (mis)understanding", 13th May

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Subject: 36.1452, FYI: DiscoMatiX hosts online talk by Diana Mazzarella, "Understanding irony (mis)understanding", 13th May

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Date: 06-May-2025
From: Clare Patterson [clare.s.patterson at warwick.ac.uk]
Subject: DiscoMatiX hosts online talk by Diana Mazzarella, "Understanding irony (mis)understanding", 13th May


DiscoMatiX returns for 2025! We are excited to host a talk from Diana
Mazzarella (University of Neuchâtel) on "Understanding irony
(mis)understanding" on Tues 13th May, 16:00 CEST. The talk will be
hosted on Zoom; as usual, please email discomatix.group at gmail.com in
advance to get the meeting link. We hope to see many of you there!
Further information about DiscoMatiX can be found on our website:
https://discomatix.github.io/
Abstract:
Verbal irony typically involves making a statement that expresses a
proposition the speaker believes to be false or irrelevant, not with
the intention to deceive the addressee, but rather to prompt the
addressee to recognise the speaker’s implicit dissociative attitude
toward that proposition. As a result, understanding irony arguably
involves grasping its epistemic, intentional, and attitudinal
components.
How does research in experimental and developmental pragmatics measure
irony understanding? In this presentation, I discuss some of the
methodological challenges involved in designing experiments that
investigate children’s developing understanding, or adults’
processing, of verbal irony. On the one hand, I illustrate the key
role of various contextual features in modulating participants’
responses. On the other hand, I reflect on the delicate balance
between capturing spontaneous interpretations and oversimplifying
measures, risking the overinterpretation of participants’ behaviour.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics




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