Literary Cognition: Particular Context versus Conventional Context

Scholars studying literary cognition tend to focus on conventional assumptions, expectations, frames, scripts, schemata, or mental models as triggered by textual cues. But sometimes the understanding of the deep-level meaning of a text depends on the subversion of conventional interpretive frames as invited by the particular textual context. This can be clearly seen in the case of "context-determined irony," which calls for a cognitive frame that forms a contrast with or goes against the conventional cognitive frame.