儿童反语理解的心理学研究进展

Developments of Psychological Research on Children’s Understanding of Irony

反语是一种较为复杂的语言现象,儿童在6岁左右开始显示出初步的反语理解能力,并随年龄的增长迅速提高,但仍然存在很多困难。文章介绍了目前关于儿童反语理解研究的理论基础和主要研究方式,从心理学的角度探讨了儿童在反语理解中出现的困难的根源,并概述了国内关于汉语儿童反语理解的研究现状。目前的研究尚未形成系统的儿童反语识别理论,需要研究者对这一领域的更多关注。

Irony is a complex phenomenon of language. A preliminary understanding of irony begins to show in 6-year-old children and to increase rapidly with the growth of age, but there are still a lot of difficulties. The current theoretical foundations of children’s understanding of irony and the main research methods on it are introduced here; and the root causes of difficulties in the children’s understanding of irony are discussed from a psychological point of view. Besides, an overview of the domestic research on Chinese children’s understanding of irony is given. It is found that current research has not yet formed a mature theory on children’s understanding of irony and that more attention is needed for researchers in this field.