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A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Emojis are ideograms that are becoming ubiquitous in digital communication. However, no research has yet investigated how humans process semantic and pragmatic content of emojis in real time.
Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner
exaly   +2 more sources

Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children [PDF]

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2016
The main aim of the presented study was to investigate the influence of voice intonation on the comprehension of ironic utterances in 4- to 6-year-old Polish-speaking children. 83 preschool children were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (Banasik &
Zajączkowska Maria Katarzyna
doaj   +3 more sources

Cognitive processing of Chinese verbal irony: the role of reverse adjacency relations in reaction time and accuracy [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Traditional theories of irony, such as Grice’s Standard Pragmatic Model and Sperber and Wilson’s echoic mention theory, inadequately explain culture-specific irony processing in Mandarin.
Mian Huang   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Irony from the perspective of the Reception Theory [PDF]

open access: yesدراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2021
This research deals with the irony as a social mediator, a mechanism aimed at communicating the social reform messages. This mechanism has been considered by many contemporary Arab researchers.
Ali Andalib   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

REPRESENTATION OF IRONY IN WHATSAPP GROUP CHAT

open access: yesLire Journal, 2023
This article explores the representation of irony in WhatsApp Group chats, aiming to identify the types of irony and narrate the meaning of the irony used.
Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Function of Irony in Two Stories of Rumi's Masnavi [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2021
In Literary Terms, Irony is a way of Speaking which could be Equivalent to Satire, Metaphor, Opposition, Image, Jest and ect. In other Words, Sarcasm or Implying Something unreal that Teases your Audience or makes them Bewildered could be Called Irony ...
Yadollah Shokri, Amir Hossein Pahlavan
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the impact of paraverbal irony signals. Experimental study on verbal irony identification in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2022
This paper reports the results of an experimental study with a between subject design (N = 122) whose aim was to compare irony comprehension rates in face-to-face (FTF) and computer-mediated communication (CMC), and examine the influence of paraverbal ...
Ellis Raissa
doaj   +1 more source

Metaphysics, Universal Irony, and Richard Rorty’s “We Ironists”

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
Richard Rorty speaks of “we ironists” who use irony as the primary tool in their scholarly work and life. We cannot approach irony in terms of truth, simply because, due to its ironies, the context no longer is metaphysical.
Timo Airaksinen
doaj   +1 more source

The Verbal Irony found in English Novel “Twilight”

open access: yesHumanis, 2023
Talking irony as one of the figures of speech has been commonly discussed not only in daily conversation but also in social media, contemporary fiction, and different works of literature.
Kadek Ayu Ekasani
doaj   +1 more source

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