The role of mentalizing capacity and ecological language diversity on irony comprehension in bilingual adults.

ABSTRACT: Diverse bilingual experiences have implications for language comprehension, including pragmatic elements such as verbal irony. Irony comprehension is shaped by an interplay of linguistic, cognitive, and social factors, including individual differences in bilingual experience. We examined the relationship between individual differences related to bilingualism, specifically, the capacity to understand others' mental states and ambient exposure to language diversity, on irony comprehension. We tested 54 healthy bilingual adults, living in a linguistically diverse region-Montréal, Canada-on an irony comprehension task. This task involved reading positive and negative short stories that concluded with an ironic or literal statement, which were rated on appropriateness and perceived irony. While

SUBMITTER: Tiv M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9402273 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature