Children's Exposure to Irony in the First Four Years of Their Life: What We Learn About the Use of Ironic Comments by Mothers from the Analysis of the Providence Corpus of Childes

Q2 Arts and Humanities
N. Banasik-Jemielniak
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Abstract There has been little research conducted on the use of figurative language in parents' input provided by caregivers in child-directed speech during the first four years of the child's life. The aim of the described study was to check (a) how often ironic comments are present in child-directed speech when the interaction takes place between a mother and a child aged 4 and below and (b) what types of ironic comments children of this age are exposed to. In order to answer these questions, ironic utterances were identified in the videos of 50 hours of recordings that included mother-child interactions of five children aged 2;10‒3;05, available through the CHILDES ‒ Providence Data (Demuth, Culbertson, & Alter, 2006; MacWhinney, 2007). The extracts were then assessed by competent judges to make sure the identified instances met the criteria for verbal irony (Dynel, 2014). Results suggest that irony is present in the mother's language used while interacting with her child, with a significant number of comments where the child seems not to be the actual addressee of the message, but rather the overhearer. The ironic utterances identified during the interactions included mostly references to the child's behavior or being overwhelmed. The most common ironic markers present in these utterances were rhetorical questions and hyperboles.
儿童在生命的前四年暴露在反讽中:从儿童的天意语料库分析我们对母亲使用反讽评论的了解
在儿童出生后的头4年里,关于照顾者在儿童导向言语中提供的父母输入中使用比喻语言的研究很少。所描述的研究的目的是检查(a)当母亲和4岁及以下的孩子之间发生互动时,讽刺评论在儿童导向的言语中出现的频率,以及(b)这个年龄段的孩子接触到什么类型的讽刺评论。为了回答这些问题,我们从50小时的录像中识别出讽刺话语,这些录像包括5个年龄在2岁至3岁之间的儿童的母子互动,这些录像可通过CHILDES - Providence数据(Demuth, Culbertson, & Alter, 2006;MacWhinney, 2007)。然后由有能力的法官评估这些摘录,以确保所识别的实例符合言语讽刺的标准(Dynel, 2014)。结果表明,母亲在与孩子互动时使用的语言中存在讽刺意味,在很多评论中,孩子似乎不是真正的收件人,而是偷听者。在互动中发现的讽刺话语主要涉及孩子的行为或不知所措。这些话语中最常见的反讽标记是反问和夸张。
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Psychology of Language and Communication
Psychology of Language and Communication Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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