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A Meta-Analysis of Eye Movement Studies on the Effects of Context on Irony Comprehension
Received date: 2022-05-17
Online published: 2023-03-23
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This study used the method of meta-analysis to explore the role of context in the understanding of irony and the relevant moderating factor. Through articles retrieval, 13 valid articles and 16 experimental data were collected, including 806 subjects. The results showed that: 1) The meta-analysis of the correct rate of irony understanding showed that irony was significantly more difficult to understand than literal language and the extra inference process caused by context inconsistency led to the relative difficulty of irony understanding. 2) The target ironic sentences had no difference from the literal sentences in first-pass reading time, while the processing time of irony was significantly longer in regression path reading time and total reading time, which indicated that context worked in the later processing of irony, readers need to reanalyze and integrate in the later processing. This result was in line with the prediction of modular accounts. 3) Familiarity moderated the first-pass reading time and the total reading time of the target region, indicating that the meaning of familiarity was processed first regardless of the intensity of the context, which was consistent with the prediction of the graded salience hypothesis.
Key words： context; irony processing; eye movement; meta-analysis
Hui DING , Zhichao ZHANG , Manman ZHANG , Chuanli ZANG . A Meta-Analysis of Eye Movement Studies on the Effects of Context on Irony Comprehension[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2023 , 21(1) : 28 -35 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2023.01.005
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