Ingrid Lossius Falkum
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ingrid Lossius Falkum is involved.
Articles
2026 The development of irony and epistemic vigilance: Content inappropriateness and speaker trustworthiness Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 75–98 | Article
Understanding irony requires epistemic vigilance towards both the content and source of communication. We conducted two experiments to investigate whether children’s early epistemic vigilance abilities aid in detecting verbal irony. The first experiment focused on children’s vigilance towards… read more
2026 Parodic irony comprehension: The roles of pretend play and theory of mind abilities Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 161–188 | Article
Studies find that irony comprehension emerges around the ages of 6–7, aligning with second-order theory of mind (ToM) abilities. This study follows up on previous research suggesting that children younger than this age might be to some extent sensitive to irony uttered with a parodic tone of… read more
2007 A relevance-theoretic analysis of concept narrowing and broadening in English and Norwegian original texts and translations Information Structuring Resources in Contrast, Behrens, Bergljot, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 119–141 | Article
This paper studies the lexical-pragmatic processes of narrowing and broadening of conceptual content in the relation between original texts and their corresponding translations in the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) from a relevance-theoretic point of view. It is suggested that, in at… read more