Abstract：
:This article evaluates two theoretical accounts of how sarcasm is understood; the traditional model, which asserts that listeners derive a counterfactual inference from the sarcastic comment, and relevance theory, which asserts that listeners recognize sarcasm as a scornful echo of a previous assertion. Evidence from normal speakers provides only partial support for both theories. Evidence from brain-injured populations suggests that aspects of the pragmatic process can be arrested in ways not predicted by either theory. It is concluded that sarcasm is more effortful to process than nonsarcastic comments and that inferences about the facts of the situation and the mental state of the speaker (e.g., attitudes, knowledge, and intentions) are important to comprehending sarcasm. It is questioned whether inferences about mental state are relatively more difficult for brain-injured subjects and, if so, whether this is a continuum of difficulty or reflects reliance upon different cognitive processes.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
McDonald Sdoi
10.1006/brln.1999.2124subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-07-01 00:00:00pages
486-506issue
3eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(99)92124-7journal_volume
68pub_type
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2015.01.003
更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1999.2087
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.004
更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2014.07.005
更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2012.06.008
更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1993.1033
更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00455-3
更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1997.1786
更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2015.12.001
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
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更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1996.0077
更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.2001.2570
更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1996.0024
更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104811
更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0093-934x(03)00072-5
更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For Chinese compounds, neighbors can share either both orthographic forms and meanings, or orthographic forms only. In this study, central presentation and visual half-field (VF) presentation methods were used in conjunction with ERP measures to investigate how readers solve the sublexical semantic ambiguity of the fi...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.003
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0093-934x(03)00137-8
更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2015.03.002
更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2010.05.004
更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1006/brln.1997.1825
更新日期：1997-11-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1998.1981
更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104694
更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.2001.2630
更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The study of the neural basis of syntactic processing has greatly benefited from neuroimaging techniques. Research on syntactic processing in bilinguals has used a variety of techniques, including mainly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERP). This paper reports on a functional...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.009
更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2005.08.002
更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It has been commonly agreed that developmental dyslexia in different languages has a common biological origin: a dysfunction of left posterior temporal brain regions dealing with phonological processes. Siok, Perfetti, Jin, and Tan (2004, Nature, 431, 71-76) challenge this biological unity theory of dyslexia: Chinese ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2005.05.002
更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1997.1728
更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2015.08.001
更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this study we investigate the production of verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia. In a number of recent studies it has been argued that tense inflection is harder to produce for agrammatic individuals than agreement inflection. However, results are still inconclusive, at least for Dutch and German. Here, we report...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.001
更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00
