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Why it’s difficult for children to understand sarcasm

Why it’s difficult for children to understand sarcasm

Sarcasm is simple! Yeah, right. Although sarcasm is widespread, found across languages and in the various ways we communicate, it is not simple. For most children, learning to understand sarcasm is challenging. Sarcasm can be defined as “the use of remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what they say, made in order to hurt someone’s […] … learn more→