Children's understanding of social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of Discourse Irony

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 913-928

  Filippova, Eva ^a   Astington, Janet Wilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SOCIALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953785095     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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