The term theory of mind (ToM) refers to the capacity to infer one's own and other persons'
mental states. A substantial body of research has highlighted the evolution of ToM in …

BackgroundMentalising impairment (an impaired ability to think about people in terms of
their mental states) has frequently been associated with schizophrenia. AimsTo assess the …

Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central
claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

The ability to infer other persons' mental states and emotions has been termed 'theory of
mind'. It represents an evolved psychological capacity most highly developed in humans …

This paper considers two post-Gricean attempts to provide an explanatory account of verbal
irony. The first treats irony as an echoic use of language in which the speaker tacitly …

This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful
social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a …

We provide a battery of examples of delusions against which theoretical accounts can be
tested. Then we identify neuropsychological anomalies that could produce the unusual …

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on
theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with …

In each case, the point of the irony is to indicate that a proposition the speaker might
otherwise be taken to endorse (that the party was fun, the person who took her bag behaved …