A Pragmatic Study of the Recognition and Interpretation of Verbal Irony by Malaysian ESL Learners

Salman, Sahira M.

doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2p445

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“…As part of this study, we also identified the most cited pragmatics documents. These included the discussion of different topic of which are qualitative content analysis in nursing research [ 74 ], pedagogy of multiliteracies [ 60 ], measuring recognition [ 130 ] and the pragmatics of model-driven developments [ 79 ]. Such studies provide measures to achieve trustworthiness in qualitative content analysis including credibility, dependability, and transferability.…”

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Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication

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New-born infants communicate from the first minute they come to life. This non-linguistic and non-verbal capacity to interact from the first day they come to life enables them to express their needs and evidence their typical development. This capacity to interact develops to include linguistic and non-linguistic use of verbal and non-verbal interaction, that is, pragmatics. Because pragmatics is heterogeneously structured of semiotic, cognitive, motor and sensory elements so it is vital to ensure successful human interaction. The other language elements (i.e., phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic) are essential inputs for this human interaction outcome (i.e., pragmatics). Accordingly, this study sought to map evidence that pragmatics can enhance children’s use of linguistic and non-linguistic capacities for interactive communication. This was addressed by conducting bibliometric and scientometric analyses of 6554 documents from Scopus, 1167 from WOS and 11,230 from Lens between 1939 and 2022. We analysed the past, present and future developments of the field of pragmatics using bibliometric and scientometric indicators. The scientometric analysis was conducted using CiteSpace 5.8.R3 and VOSviewer 1.6.18 software, which enabled the tabulation, visualisation and measurement of the impact of central influencers in the field of pragmatics. In the light of our results, pragmatics continues to expand in order to understand human interaction in a deeper way and to enhance children’s typical interactions with the environment around them. The group should also include adults or elderly people whose pragmatic language skills have been impaired due to any acquired or developmental disorder, such as a brain injury.

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“…The importance of context in the ability of ESL speakers to disambiguate the true intent of English sarcasm has been supported by several studies (Filippova, 2014;Peters et al, 2016;Salman, 2016). Peters et al (2016) suggest that ESL speakers rely more heavily on context than prosody when identifying sarcasm.…”

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“…Although early research suggested that sarcasm is absent from some languages (Haiman, 1998;Kreuz et al, 1998), more recent research suggests that it is found in most languages, but includes cultural variations in the frequency of the production of sarcasm as well as its function (Ghezzi & Molinelli, 2019;Lee & Katz, 1998;Rockwell, 2006;Toplak & Katz, 2000). Salman (2016) found that Malaysian ESL participants generally had difficulty detecting sarcasm when it was used in an evaluative, humorous, or mocking manner. Likewise, Filippova (2014) found that ESL participants from the Czech Republic were better than NE speakers at identifying ironic sarcastic criticism, whereas the NE speakers were better at identifying ironic praise.…”

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Sarcasm detection in native English and English as a second language speakers.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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Sarcastic speech is ubiquitous in most languages, though understanding sarcasm is highly dependent upon cultural and social contextual factors (Campbell & Katz, Discourse Processes, 2012, 49, 459). It is therefore surprising that little research has examined the ability of nonnative speakers to understand the sarcastic cues of a second language. In the current study, native English speakers and English as a second language (ESL) speakers were tested in each of four different conditions. Three of the conditions presented isolated cues involved in the detection of sarcasm (prosody, written context, and facial expression) and asked participants to identify the emotional intent of the cue (sarcasm or sincerity). The fourth condition combined spoken context, prosody, and facial expressions into each trial and asked the participant to identify sarcasm or sincerity. Participants also indicated their experience with sarcasm through the completion of three questionnaires:

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A Pragmatic Study of the Recognition and Interpretation of Verbal Irony by Malaysian ESL Learners

Cited by 2 publications

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Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication

Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication

Sarcasm detection in native English and English as a second language speakers.

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