Papers by Katerina Tselika
Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Jan 17, 2024
The positive effect of physical activity on executive function and language development during early childhood, 2024
Investigating if Spatial cognitive deficits accompany Dyslexia and DLD, 2020
This paper studies the ways in which verbal irony can be used as an impoliteness tool. In the rec... more This paper studies the ways in which verbal irony can be used as an impoliteness tool. In the recent literature there has been an effort to define verbal irony and its uses, but very little or no study has been done on the impolite function of irony. My research will explore the cancellability of irony, its intentionality and examines the hypothesis that irony's strength can be either mitigated or enforced depending on the interlocutors' power differences. Furthermore, this paper will account for the various views on sarcasm and irony and propose that people resort to irony to make criticism as it does not make them sound rude or socially inappropriate. Situational, dramatic and positive ironies are not part of this study.
Thesis Chapters by Katerina Tselika
The first part of the research is devoted to the assessment of the cognitive abilities of childre... more The first part of the research is devoted to the assessment of the cognitive abilities of children with dyslexia and developmental language disorders (DLD), which are related to spatial conception through the use of image schemata. The performance of the clinical cases is compared to the performance of typically developing children, matched for chronological and language age. The second part of the research focuses on the neurodevelopmental framework of image schema acquisition and spatial cognition in typically developing children, through the use of the Greek preposition ‘se’, σε.
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Papers by Katerina Tselika
Thesis Chapters by Katerina Tselika