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The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators
It is controversial whether sarcasm processing should go through literal meaning processing. There is also a lack of eye movement evidence for Chinese sarcasm processing. In this study, we used eye movement experiments to explore the processing differences between sarcastic and literal meaning in Ch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9954088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36831749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13020207 |
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author | Li, Yutong Shi, Hanwen Li, Shan Gao, Lei Gao, Xiaolei |
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description | It is controversial whether sarcasm processing should go through literal meaning processing. There is also a lack of eye movement evidence for Chinese sarcasm processing. In this study, we used eye movement experiments to explore the processing differences between sarcastic and literal meaning in Chinese text and whether this was regulated by sentence complexity. We manipulated the variables of complexity and literality. We recorded 33 participants’ eye movements when they were reading Chinese text and the results were analyzed by a linear mixed model. We found that, in the early stage of processing, there was no difference between the processing time of the sarcastic meaning and the literal meaning of simple remarks, whereas for complex remarks, the time needed to process the sarcastic meaning was longer than that needed to process the literal meaning. In the later stage of processing, regardless of complexity, the processing time of the sarcastic meaning was longer than that of the literal meaning. These results suggest that sarcastic speech processing in Chinese is influenced by literal meaning, and the effect of literal meaning on sarcastic remarks is regulated by complexity. Sarcastic meaning was expressed differently in different stages of processing. These results support the hierarchical salience hypothesis of the serial modular model. |
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spelling | pubmed-99540882023-02-25 The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators Li, Yutong Shi, Hanwen Li, Shan Gao, Lei Gao, Xiaolei Brain Sci Article It is controversial whether sarcasm processing should go through literal meaning processing. There is also a lack of eye movement evidence for Chinese sarcasm processing. In this study, we used eye movement experiments to explore the processing differences between sarcastic and literal meaning in Chinese text and whether this was regulated by sentence complexity. We manipulated the variables of complexity and literality. We recorded 33 participants’ eye movements when they were reading Chinese text and the results were analyzed by a linear mixed model. We found that, in the early stage of processing, there was no difference between the processing time of the sarcastic meaning and the literal meaning of simple remarks, whereas for complex remarks, the time needed to process the sarcastic meaning was longer than that needed to process the literal meaning. In the later stage of processing, regardless of complexity, the processing time of the sarcastic meaning was longer than that of the literal meaning. These results suggest that sarcastic speech processing in Chinese is influenced by literal meaning, and the effect of literal meaning on sarcastic remarks is regulated by complexity. Sarcastic meaning was expressed differently in different stages of processing. These results support the hierarchical salience hypothesis of the serial modular model. MDPI 2023-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9954088/ /pubmed/36831749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13020207 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Yutong Shi, Hanwen Li, Shan Gao, Lei Gao, Xiaolei The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators |
title | The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators |
title_full | The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators |
title_fullStr | The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators |
title_full_unstemmed | The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators |
title_short | The Adjustment of Complexity on Sarcasm Processing in Chinese: Evidence from Reading Time Indicators |
title_sort | adjustment of complexity on sarcasm processing in chinese: evidence from reading time indicators |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9954088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36831749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13020207 |
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