What is it about?
The language of HIA children develops earlier and includes the use of irony, which involves metalinguistic skills. In this context, the present study aims to offer an instrument, called the verbal irony questionnaire (or VIrQ), to test the comprehension of verbal irony in students with HIA.
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Why is it important?
The verbal irony questionnaire (or VIrQ) is the first instrument of its kind
Perspectives
The verbal irony questionnaire (or VIrQ) has been designed following previous theoretical work on irony by the linguists in the group of authors and the empirical evidence points to the reliability of this work.
Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza
University of La Rioja
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This page is a summary of: The Verbal Irony Questionnaire: An Initial Approach to the Conceptualization and Measurement of Verbal Irony in High Intellectual Ability, Journal of Intelligence, January 2025, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence13020015.
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