Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension
Current trends, challenges, and perspectives
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026)
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[Pragmatics & Cognition, 33:1] Expected May 2026. vi, 229 pp.
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Table of Contents
- Investigating children’s irony comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectivesJulia Fuchs-Kreiß | pp. 1–11
- Attitude understanding and irony development: Methodological challengesAna Milosavljevic & Diana Mazzarella | pp. 12–33
- LEIRO: A novel approach to assess irony comprehension in childrenJulia Fuchs-Kreiß & Cornelia Schulze | pp. 34–55
- Training studies provide new insights about mechanisms of irony developmentHenri Olkoniemi & Penny M. Pexman | pp. 56–74
- The development of irony and epistemic vigilance: Content inappropriateness and speaker trustworthinessIngrid Lossius Falkum & Franziska Köder | pp. 75–98
- Kidding kids: The role of epistemic vigilance in irony developmentDiana Mazzarella & Nausicaa Pouscoulous | pp. 99–120
- Conventionality in irony development: Help or hinder?Jessica Goulston & Nausicaa Pouscoulous | pp. 121–139
- Explaining children’s comprehension of verbal ironyMelanie Glenwright & Caelan Budhoo | pp. 140–160
- Parodic irony comprehension: The roles of pretend play and theory of mind abilitiesRebecca Kvisler Iversen & Ingrid Lossius Falkum | pp. 161–188
- Investigating irony comprehension in children with ADHDAnton Gerasimovich, Cornelia Schulze & Julia Fuchs-Kreiß | pp. 189–207
- Children’s vigilance towards others’ gullibilityMarie Aguirre, Nausicaa Pouscoulous & Diana Mazzarella | pp. 208–228
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