Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives
Edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026) vi, 229 pp.
Julia Fuchs-Kreiß
List of John Benjamins publications in which Julia Fuchs-Kreiß is involved.
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2026 Investigating children’s irony comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 1–11 | Introduction
2026 LEIRO: A novel approach to assess irony comprehension in children Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 34–55 | Article
Irony comprehension is a complex pragmatic skill developing late in childhood, with inconsistent findings regarding the acquisition age. One reason for this inconsistency could be that previous studies focused on different components of irony comprehension (e.g., speaker belief, emotion,… read more
2026 Investigating irony comprehension in children with ADHD Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 189–207 | Article
As a pragmatic competence, irony comprehension plays an important role in everyday communication and social relationships. Research to date has mainly focused on irony comprehension in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder. More recently, pragmatic competences… read more
2024 ‘Easy Language’ for migrants in France: Looking for linguistic criteria ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:2, pp. 221–241 | Article
One of the target groups of Easy Language, a comprehensibility enhanced variety of a natural language, are migrants who have difficulties with the standard language of the host country. However, regarding French Easy Language, evidence-based linguistic criteria are lacking. Therefore, the… read more
2024 Pragmatics and cognition in Easy Language Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
A core area of pragmatics is conversational implicatures, where speakers imply a meaning that is not part of what is literally said. Not all people have the ability to easily understand such common (implicit) forms of communication. For these people, Easy Language has been developed, i.e. a form… read more
2023 40 years of research into children’s irony comprehension: A review Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
Children’s ability to understand irony is believed to be acquired late compared to other pragmatic skills. To explore this assertion, this article presents a review of four decades of research, to determine the age at which children actually do become capable of understanding ironic utterances,… read more