Advanced search
Publication Cover
European Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 11, 2014 - Issue 3
Submit an article Journal homepage
551
Views
21
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Do social norms, false belief understanding, and metacognitive vocabulary influence irony comprehension? A study of five- and seven-year-old children

Davide MassaroDepartment of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Annalisa ValleDepartment of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
&
Antonella MarchettiDepartment of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Pages 292-304 | Received 25 Jul 2012, Accepted 14 Aug 2013, Published online: 13 Aug 2013

References

  • Astington, J. W., & Pelletier, J. (1998). Metacognitive language test. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Astington, J. W., Pelletier, J., & Homer, B. (2002). Theory of mind and epistemological development: The relation between children's second-order false-belief understanding and their ability to reason about evidence. New Ideas in Psychology, 20, 131–144. 10.1016/S0732-118X(02)00005-3.
  • Bicchieri, C. (2006). The grammar of society: The nature and dynamics of social norms. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Carugati, F., & Gilly. M. (1993). The multiple sides of the same tool: Cognitive development as a matter of social construction of meaning. In F.Carugati & M.Gilly (Eds.). Everyday life, social meanings and the social construction of cognitive functioning [Special issue]. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 8, 345–354.
  • Colston, H. L. (2000). On necessary conditions for verbal irony comprehension. Pragmatics & Cognition, 8, 277–324. 10.1075/pc.8.2.02col.
  • Creusere, M. A. (2000). A developmental test of theoretical perspectives on the understanding of verbal irony: Children's recognition of allusion and pragmatic insincerity. Metaphor and Symbol, 15, 29–45. 10.1080/10926488.2000.9678863.
  • Doise, W., Mugny, G., & Pérez, J. A. (1998). The social construction of knowledge: Social marking and socio-cognitive conflict. In U.Flick (Ed.), The psychology of the social. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dunn, L., & Dunn, L. (1981). Peabody picture vocabulary test-revised manual. Pines, MN: American Guidance Service.
  • Filippova, E., & Astington, J. (2008). Further development in social reasoning revealed in discourse irony understanding. Child Development, 79, 126–138. 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01115.x.
  • Filippova, E., & Astington, J. (2010). Children's understanding of social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of discourse irony. Child Development, 81, 913–928. 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01442.x.
  • Gibbs, R. W. (2000). Irony in talk among friends. Metaphor and Symbol, 15, 5–27. 10.1080/10926488.2000.9678862.
  • Giora, R., Fein, O., Laadan, D., Wolfson, J., Zeituny, M., Kidron, R., Kaufman, R., & Shaham, R. (2007). Expecting irony: Context versus salience-based effects. Metaphor and Symbol, 22, 119–146. 10.1080/10926480701235346.
  • Ivanko, S. L., & Pexman, P. M. (2003). Context incongruity and irony processing. Discourse Processes, 35, 241–279. 10.1207/S15326950DP3503_2.
  • Kalish, C. W., & Shiverick, S. M. (2004). Children's reasoning about norms and traits as motives for behavior. Cognitive Development, 19, 401–416. 10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.05.004.
  • Killen, M. (2007). Children's social and moral reasoning about exclusion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 32–36. 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00470.x.
  • Kohlberg, L. (1976). Moral stages and moralization: The cognitive-developmental approach. In T.Lickona (Ed.), Moral development and behavior: Theory, research and social issues (pp. 31–53). Holt, NY: Rinehart and Winston.
  • Massaro, D., Valle, A., & Marchetti, A. (2013). Irony and second-order false belief in children: What changes when mothers rather than siblings speak?European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 10, 301–317. 10.1080/17405629.2012.672272.
  • Nilsen, E. S., Glenwright, M., & Huyder, V. (2011). Children and adults understand that verbal irony interpretation depends on listener knowledge. Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 374–409. 10.1080/15248372.2010.544693.
  • Pexman, P. M., & Glenwright, M. (2007). How do typically developing children grasp the meaning of verbal irony?Journal of Neurolinguistics, 20, 178–196. 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.06.001.
  • Rutland, A., Cameron, L., Milne, A., & Mcgeorge, P. (2005). Social norms and self-presentation: Children's implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes. Child Development, 76, 451–466. 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00856.x.
  • Siegal, M. (1997). Knowing children: Experiments in conversation and cognition. Hove: Psychology Press.
  • Stella, G., Pizzoli, C., & Tressoldi, P. (Eds.). (2000). Peabody. Test vocabolario recettivo. P.P.V.T.-R. [Peabody picture vocabulary test – revised]. Torino: Omega Edizioni.
  • Wilson, D. (2006). The pragmatics of verbal irony: Echo or pretence?Lingua, 116, 1722–1743. 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.05.001.
  • Wimmer, H., & Perner, J. (1983). Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition, 13, 103–128. 10.1016/0010-0277(83)90004-5.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.