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Monitoring the pretence. Intersubjective grounding, gaze and irony

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Cognitive-linguistic and pragmatic research on higher-order phenomena such as irony, sarcasm and hyperbole has focused on how these phenomena involve a form of (joint) pretence (Clark 1996, Barnden 2017, Tobin and Israel 2012, Dancygier and Sweetser 2014, Brône 2008). Crucial to the success of these phenomena is language users’ cognitive ability to gauge the point of view of the other (including the other’s view on the self, Geeraerts 2021). In this paper, we provide empirical multimodal support for such a view, zooming in on partici-pants’ eye gaze (using mobile eye-tracking data) when engaged in forms of joint pretence. The eye-tracking data reveal particular gaze patterns that suggest an increased engagement with monitoring the pretence (measured in terms both gaze shifts between participants as well as the duration of mutual gaze) when compared with baseline data. By zooming in on the multimodal dynamics of pretence in interaction, this chapter contributes to the increased attention for inter-subjectivity in Cognitive Linguistics.
Boek: Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
Pagina's: 544 - 556
ISBN:9783110738513
Jaar van publicatie:2021
Toegankelijkheid:Closed