The issue of the advantage or rather dangerousness of redescriptive activities motivated Rorty’s landmark private/public divide, and yet, upon closer inspection, the divide itself needs to be rethought precisely in the light of the possibility that the ironist attitude can jeopardize the quest for public solidarity by frustrating one’s fellow beings in
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The role of second order theory of mind in children's comprehension of irony
Three experiments were designed to explore the role of 2nd order Theory of Mind in children’s comprehension of irony. Experiment 1 confirmed the correlation between these 2 factors, but further analysis showed that this correlation was indirect ...
F. X. Fang, X. S. Gai, Y. J. Jiang
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Psychological insights for coping with embarrassment in clinical medicine
Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Donald A. Redelmeier, Jada Roach
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Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz +2 more
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L’« ironie catastrophique » de Reinhard Jirgl dans Renégat. Roman du temps nerveux (2005)
Catastrophe and irony are both based on a decoupling between appearance and reality. By the upheaval that results, a catastrophe reveals what normal situations usually mask.
Anne Lemonnier-Lemieux
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Forms of irony in Carl Schmitt's Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus
The argument for the role of various crises of modernity in the totalitarian violence of the twentieth century is well known. At the heart, however, of Carl Schmitt's own role in this troubling history, lies a certain irony which complicates the reading,
Bikundo, E, Manderson, D
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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Irony and self-irony as markers of cultural identity [PDF]
Global shifts that take place in all levels of social life, both in Ukraine and in the world, the transience of events, which acquires a routine character, encourage comprehension and rethinking of the meaning of factors that affirm, testify to the ...
Raisa Shulga
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Thackeray's use of irony in characterizing women in his major novels
William Makepeace Thackeray's irony is largely responsible far the ambiguity which roused strongly conflicting opinions about his female characters. Critics have argued about why he wrote so ambiguously, but most likely he was expressing his artistic ...
Croxton, Carol Royalty, 1930-
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The Verbal Irony Questionnaire: An Initial Approach to the Conceptualization and Measurement of Verbal Irony in High Intellectual Ability [PDF]
Figurative language is a complex construct related to intelligence. Psychology and psycholinguistics are trying to understand it from an interdisciplinary perspective, but studies are still scarce, methodologies are heterogeneous, and results are ...
Ramon Cladellas-Pros +15 more
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