{"title":"Idiom meaning selection following a prior context: eye movement evidence of L1 direct retrieval and L2 compositional assembly","authors":"Marco S. G. Senaldi, Debra Titone","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2024.2311637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2024.2311637","url":null,"abstract":"Past work has suggested that L1 readers retrieve idioms (i.e., spill the tea) directly vs. matched literal controls (drink the tea) following unbiased contexts, whereas L2 readers process idioms mo...","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140169122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research","authors":"Heather J. Ferguson","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2024.2314945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2024.2314945","url":null,"abstract":"The papers in this Special Issue showcase some of the current work that aims to understand how people attribute meaning when speakers employ figurative language. Figurative language serves various ...","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139954413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research","authors":"Henri Olkoniemi, Ruth Filik","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2024.2312049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2024.2312049","url":null,"abstract":"The use and interpretation of figurative expressions (e.g., irony, idiom, and metaphor) is an integral part of everyday human communication. Thus, the ability to comprehend figurative language unde...","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139919925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on Roy O. Freedle","authors":"Arthur C. Graesser","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2024.2305532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2024.2305532","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Discourse Processes (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instructing Hugs for the Photograph: The Local Achievement of Haptic Compositions and Their Public Visibility","authors":"Lorenza Mondada, Burak S. Tekin, David Monteiro","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2293445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2023.2293445","url":null,"abstract":"Hugs are a pervasive practice characterizing human sociality. They involve the persons engaged in hugging as well as other persons who might witness it for various purposes. This article examines t...","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139461391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valentina Bambini, Giacomo Ranieri, Luca Bischetti, Biagio Scalingi, Chiara Bertini, Irene Ricci, Walter Schaeken, Paolo Canal
{"title":"The costs of multimodal metaphors: comparing ERPs to figurative expressions in verbal and verbo-pictorial formats","authors":"Valentina Bambini, Giacomo Ranieri, Luca Bischetti, Biagio Scalingi, Chiara Bertini, Irene Ricci, Walter Schaeken, Paolo Canal","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2282895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2023.2282895","url":null,"abstract":"Psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on verbal material. Yet, metaphors frequently occur in a multimodal format, blending words and pictures to convey meaning. Here we compared verbal ...","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138745262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books","authors":"M. M. Davidson","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2023.2291297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2291297","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Text social information includes the cognitive processes and social communication skills that support real or hypothetical human thought or interaction. The current measure of text social information is genre. However, genre is a limited measure because of poor operationalization, limited specificity, and overlap with structural and linguistic differences. The purpose of this study was to develop an automated text analysis approach to measure text social information in children’s picture books beyond genre. Studies 1 and 2 found convergent and divergent validity for several measures that captured text social information with these measures being significantly higher in children’s fiction compared to nonfiction books and not correlated with other structural and linguistic text measures. Study 3 found two components of text social information, based on a principal component analysis. These two components captured a general socialness factor (i.e., theory of mind, emotions, and social relationships) and pragmatics/conversation. Study 4 provides preliminary evidence for the predictive validity of the text social information measures. Together, this study provides an initial set of continuous measures for measuring text social information that can begin to advance the field in determining how text social information impacts comprehension and social cognition.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139235258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ekaterina Tskhovrebova, Sandrine Zufferey, Elena Tribushinina
{"title":"Vocabulary size and exposure to print predict mastery of connectives in teenage years","authors":"Ekaterina Tskhovrebova, Sandrine Zufferey, Elena Tribushinina","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2266963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2023.2266963","url":null,"abstract":"Connectives such as because and but are crucial for signaling coherence relations in discourse. They contribute to a better reading comprehension and, thus, academic performance. The aim of this article is to contribute to our understanding of connective development during teenage years by studying individual differences in the performance of native Russian-speaking teenagers (N = 107, Mage = 13.93, range: 11 to 17) in a connective-cloze task. The tested connectives marked six coherence relations and were used either predominantly in speech or in the written language. In addition, we examined whether students’ performance with the connectives was modulated by their general linguistic experience, as assessed by a vocabulary test and degree of exposure to print. Our results reveal that interpersonal differences in lexicon size and level of exposure to print were the strongest predictors of appropriate usage of connectives, whereas differences in age, connective mode, and polyfunctionality played a lesser role. This finding may indicate that, starting from age 11, biological age and intrinsic properties of connectives matter less for their mastery than general linguistic experience, as measured by vocabulary level and exposure to print.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henri Olkoniemi, Diane Mézière, Johanna K. Kaakinen
{"title":"Comprehending irony in text: evidence from scanpaths","authors":"Henri Olkoniemi, Diane Mézière, Johanna K. Kaakinen","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2266964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2023.2266964","url":null,"abstract":"Eyetracking studies have shown that readers reread ironic phrases when resolving their meaning. Moreover, it has been shown that the timecourse of processing ironic meaning is affected by reader’s working memory capacity (WMC). Irony is a context-dependent phenomenon but using traditional eye-movement measures it is difficult to analyze processing beyond sentence-level. A promising method to study individual differences in irony processing at the paragraph-level is scanpath analysis. In the present experiment, we analyzed whether individual differences in WMC are reflected in scanpaths during reading ironic stories by combining data from two previous eye-tracking studies (N = 120). The results revealed three different reading patterns: fast-and-linear reading, selective reading, and nonselective rereading. The readers predominantly used the fast-and-linear reading pattern for ironic and literal stories. However, readers were less likely to use the nonselective rereading pattern with ironic than literal texts. The reading patterns for ironic stories were modulated by WMC. Results showed that scanpaths captured differences missed by standard measures, showing it to be a valuable tool to study individual differences in irony processing.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eye-tracking evidence from attachment structures favors a serial model of discourse–sentence interactivity","authors":"Jack Dempsey, Anna Tsiola, Kiel Christianson","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2260246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2023.2260246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMany psycholinguistic studies examine how people parse sentences in isolation; however, years of work in discourse processing have shown that sentence-level interpretations are influenced at some stage by discourse-level information. Evidence over the past 20 years remains mixed as to the temporal dynamics of such top-down interactions. In particular, dynamic accounts where readers use the discourse model to generate expectations for certain grammatical structures before and during parsing differ from serial accounts where an algorithmic first-pass processing mechanism precedes integration of sentence material into the discourse model. To test between these two theories, the current study investigates eye-movement behaviors when reading temporarily ambiguous attachment structures following discourses with biases either matching, mismatching, or neutral with respect to the attachment resolution. No evidence was found suggesting readers systematically use discourse information to generate structural expectations, in line with serial accounts of processing at the sentence–discourse interface. Scanpath analyses further highlight the confirmatory nature of rereading when participants encounter discourse continuations that do not fit with prior contexts. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementAll materials, data, and analyses are shared openly via OSF at https://osf.io/gfjn6/. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/GFJN6.Supplementary materialsSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2260246.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}