This study examines how Korean adult learners of English interpret sarcasm in spoken English. Participants were asked to identify instances of sarcasm in video clips taken from the U.S. TV sitcom Friends, and then to assess the possible speaker intent and communicative goals associated with these sarcastic utterances. Finally, during individual interviews, participants reported what cues they attended to while processing sarcasm. Analysis revealed that learners drew upon certain features of L1 schema during the L2 comprehension process. Results also suggest pedagogical ideas for teaching the concept and interpretation of English sarcasm to L2 learners.

Jiyun Kim

Journal of Pragmatics

Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world.    The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.

Since its inception in 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has served as a platform for a diverse range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics, and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic research from various perspectives that contributes to theories on how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts, drawing on authentic data from a wide array of languages and cultures around the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that utilizes authentic language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighboring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. In addition to full-length articles, discussion notes, and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high-quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics that make a significant contribution to topical or developing areas at the cutting edge of research.

自1977年以来，《Journal of Pragmatics》一直为广泛的语用学研究提供一个交流平台，包括认知语用学、语料库语用学、实验语用学、历史语用学、人际语用学、多模态语用学、社会语用学、理论语用学及相关领域。我们的目标是发表来自各个角度的创新性语用学研究，促进对不同语境中说话者如何产生和理解语言的理论探讨，基于来自世界各地多种语言和文化的真实数据。《Journal of Pragmatics》还鼓励利用真实语言数据探讨语用学与相邻研究领域之间的关系，如语义学、话语分析、对话分析、民族方法学、互动语言学、社会语言学、语言人类学、媒体研究、心理学、社会学和语言哲学。除了完整的研究文章，讨论笔记和书评外，期刊还欢迎在所有语用学领域提出高质量的特刊提案，这些提案应对前沿研究的热点或发展领域做出重要贡献。

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