The present dissertation aims to analyse the relationship between language and mental states in a life-span perspective. First we decided to analyse familiar and scholastic conversations about emotional themes and events lived by children in their past. Subsequently we investigated the understanding of figurative aspects of language, in particular the comprehension of irony, in a young adult sample. First and second studies develop themselves around the theme of the construction of emotional dialogues in asymmetrical relationship between children and their familiar or scholastic caregiver. Starting from the translation of a task developed by Koren-Karie, Oppenheim and colleagues (2000, 2003), the Autobiographical Emotional Events Dialogue (AEED), the studies aim to analyse the capacity of a set of dyads to build dialogues around emotional themes and the connections among AEED characteristics and mentalistic or linguistic abilities of the conversational partners. The third study, carried out on a young adults sample through the eye tracking methodology, aimed to identify the basic processes regarding the relationship between the meaning of ironic sentences and the reality. These results are interpreted in accordance with the Graded Salience Hypothesis proposed by Giora (2003).
Il presente lavoro si propone di prendere in considerazione il rapporto tra linguaggio e stati mentali in ottica life-span. In primo luogo si è deciso di analizzare le conversazioni e le narrazioni a contenuto emotivo riguardanti eventi vissuti dal bambino in ambito familiare e scolastico. Successivamente si è deciso di approfondire la comprensione di alcuni aspetti del linguaggio figurato, in particolare l’attenzione si è concentrata sulla comprensione dell’ironia negli adulti. I primi due studi si sviluppano attorno al tema della costruzione di dialoghi emotivi entro le diadi mamma/bambino e insegnante/bambino. A partire dalla traduzione dello strumento denominato “Dialogo sulle Emozioni” di Oppenheim e colleghi (2000, 2003), tali studi si propongono di analizzare la capacità di sintonizzazione emotiva di alcune diadi e di verificare i legami tra alcune componenti dello strumento e le abilità linguistiche e mentalistiche dei partner conversazionali. Il terzo studio, effettuato su un campione di adulti e con l’ausilio di un eye tracker per registrare i movimenti oculari dei partecipanti, si propone di individuare i processi di elaborazione di base del rapporto tra il significato di enunciati ironici e la realtà di riferimento. I risultati sono letti alla luce della Graded Salience Hypothesis proposta da Giora (2003).
MENTAL STATES IN COMMUNICATION: EMOTIONAL MATCHING AND IRONY UNDERSTANDING
Cornetti, Valentina
2015
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The present dissertation aims to analyse the relationship between language and mental states in a life-span perspective. First we decided to analyse familiar and scholastic conversations about emotional themes and events lived by children in their past. Subsequently we investigated the understanding of figurative aspects of language, in particular the comprehension of irony, in a young adult sample. First and second studies develop themselves around the theme of the construction of emotional dialogues in asymmetrical relationship between children and their familiar or scholastic caregiver. Starting from the translation of a task developed by Koren-Karie, Oppenheim and colleagues (2000, 2003), the Autobiographical Emotional Events Dialogue (AEED), the studies aim to analyse the capacity of a set of dyads to build dialogues around emotional themes and the connections among AEED characteristics and mentalistic or linguistic abilities of the conversational partners. The third study, carried out on a young adults sample through the eye tracking methodology, aimed to identify the basic processes regarding the relationship between the meaning of ironic sentences and the reality. These results are interpreted in accordance with the Graded Salience Hypothesis proposed by Giora (2003).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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