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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 65-73, January/March 2025.
Abstract The UK's 2024 general election was the least proportional of modern times. Labour's substantial parliamentary majority rested on the smallest ever winning party vote share. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered one of their worst ever results.
Charles Pattie, David Cutts
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

Peirce's semiotic approach to irony

, 2019
As someone famously said, irony is usually regarded as "saying what you mean without meaning what you say. "But how exactly this can be achieved is not easy to answer. More precisely, this characterization applies to verbal irony.
Vargas, Evelyn
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Irony in the Headlines

Kalbotyra, 2006
Straipsnis skirtas ironijos fenomeno tyrimui internetinių tinklapių antraštėse. Atlikta analizė leidžia daryti prielaidas, kad ironijos kaip kalbinės figūros vartojimas antraštėse tiesiogiai priklauso nuo masinės informacijos perdavimo kanalo bei nuo ekonominės-politinės situacijos šalyje.
openaire   +2 more sources

Irony in Pascal's work

, 2013
The paper deals with the role of irony in the thought of Blaise Pascal. The author proposes to distinguish two types of irony in Pascal's work. The first type - offensive irony - can be found in The Provincial Letters, Pascal's polemics with the ...
Pichová, Dagmar
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Irony is critical

, 2010
Irony is acknowledged to be usually critical: the ironic speaker tends to exhibit an apparent positive attitude in order to communicate a negative valuation.
Joana Garmendia
core   +1 more source

The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

The role of positive parental involvement in preventing drug and substance misuse among young people in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study

BMJ Open
Objectives Our study explores the potential of positive parental involvement in preventing drug and substance misuse among young people in Zimbabwe.Design We adopted a qualitative approach to explore the role of positive parental involvement in ...
Itai Kabonga, Courage Kusemwa, Irony Mazuruse, Enock Musara   +3 more
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Štrasburská hus v Kodani: Náčrt pojmu irónie u Sørena Kierkegaarda (Strasbourg goose in Copenhagen: An outline to the concept of irony in Søren Kierkegaard’s work)

Ostium, 2006
The author of this text makes clear the circumstances of origin, structure, and content of Kierkegaard´ s master dissertation thesis. He analyses understanding of irony, his relation to Socrates and irony in totality of Kierkegaard’s understanding.
Česlav Peter Šajda
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