Cognitive processing of Chinese verbal irony: the role of reverse adjacency relations in reaction time and accuracy

Traditional theories of irony, such as Grice’s Standard Pragmatic Model and Sperber and Wilson’s echoic mention theory, inadequately explain culture-specific irony processing in Mandarin. This study, building on Huang’s framework which posits that irony comprehension relies on recognizing gradient r...

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Main Authors: Mian Huang, Zijian Li, Yu Zheng, Caini Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1619358/full
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