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Crise de l’écriture et ironie dans L’Homme sans qualités de Robert Musil
Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2017 The Man without Qualities reflects a world in crisis: historical, political, identity and writing crisis. For Musil irony is the only way out. But the notion of irony is as ambiguous as the notion of crisis and the variations on the theme of the crisis ...
Elisabeth Malick Dancausa
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
, 2012 The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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’n Perspektief op ironie in die hedendaagse Afrikaanse taalgebruik
Literator, 2001 A discussion of irony in contemporary Afrikaans The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of irony as used in contemporary Afrikaans language.
T. van der Merwe
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"Wonderful! We've just missed the bus." - Parental use of irony and children's irony comprehension.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Irony is one of the linguistic means in which intended and expressed meaning diverge. It serves social-communicative functions, requires the understanding of the speaker's mental state and its comprehension takes place at an advanced stage of language ...
Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak +9 more
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A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension. [PDF]
PLoS 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
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Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2015 Iron-deficient individuals experience a loss of appetite that can be restored with iron supplementation. It has been proposed that iron influences the satiety hormone leptin; however, a direct link between iron and leptin has remained elusive. In this issue of the JCI, Gao and colleagues demonstrate an inverse relationship between adipocyte iron and ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Irony is a type of figurative language in which the literal meaning of the expression is the opposite of what the speaker intends to communicate. Even though schizophrenic patients are known as typically impaired in irony comprehension and in the ...
Róbert Herold +6 more
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Analyzing Irony in Classical Kurdish Poetry
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2021 Poetry and prose, like all other arts, need to use tools to communicate with the audience; irony is one of these tools. Early rhetorical scholars have addressed the significance of irony and its impact on the expression of meaning as well as the indirect
Jaffar Ghahramani
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The Irony of Irony: Irony Based on Truthfulness [PDF]
Corpus Pragmatics, 2017 Drawing on a corpus of academic examples, this paper addresses the vexing notion of “verisimilar irony” from a philosophical-pragmatic perspective. This species of irony escapes a neo-Gricean definition of prototypical irony based on the assumption that the speaker utters what he/she believes to be false (cf.
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, 2018 By claiming that “just war is just war,” critics suggest that just war theory both distracts from and sanitizes the horror of modern warfare by dressing it up in the language of moral principles. However, the phrase can also be taken as a reminder of why
O'Driscoll, Cian
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