Date published: Jul. 2026
Irony processing in L1 and L2

Our Governing Board Chair, Rafal Jonczyk, published a paper in Brain and Language. The study shown bilinguals exert greater cognitive effort when processing irony in their second language and that ironic meaning may resonate more strongly in the native language.
See https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105805 for the full text.