Recognition of metaphor and irony in young adults: the impact of schizotypal personality traits.

摘要: Patients with schizophrenia demonstrate two dissociable impairments of pragmatic language comprehension: (1) an insensitivity to irony, which is associated poor theory-of-mind (i.e. a difficulty inferring other people's thoughts); and (2) recognition metaphors, may reflect degraded semantics. This study investigated whether non-clinical high-schizotypal adults show similar language. Thirty-six university students completed the Raine Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, Wechsler Memory Scale Logical-Memories subtest, Raven's Progressive Matrices story comprehension task that tested ability discriminate between incongruous statements appropriate uses ironical, metaphorical or literal speech. Counter pattern found for patients, were just as capable low-schizotypal identifying suggesting discontinuity schizotypy metaphor-recognition problem. study's finding intact metaphor in contrasts previous findings proverb these individuals interpreted terms different semantic processes required recognizing interpreting metaphors. Consistent significantly impaired their appreciate when literally contradictory utterance could be continuity irony-appreciation