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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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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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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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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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IRONY IN CHARLES DICKEN'S OLIVER TWIST
Englisia, 2016 This paper describes the types of irony used by Charles Dickens in his notable early work, Oliver Twist, as well as the reasons the irony was chosen. As a figurative language, irony is utilized to express one’s complex feelings without truly saying them.
Ika Kana Trisnawati +2 more
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Irony as a Cultural and Language Phenomenon
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2019 The article focuses on irony as a multilateral phenomenon, which is the subject of many spheres: history, philosophy, culture, literature, linguistics etc.
Anna A. Gornostaeva
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POSTMODERN IRONY AND LAUGH: SPECIFIC FEATURES AND SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2020 Irony in postmodern literature is recognized as a basic category that is verified in the works of theorists and researchers of postmodernism (R. Barthes, J. Baudrillard, J. Doyle, I. Hassan, L. Hutcheon, G. Deleuze, J. Derrida, F. Jameson, U. Eco, J.-F.
Iryna V. Kropyvko
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Irony in the emotive vocabulary of the Kabardian-Circassian language
КавказологияThis article explores irony in the emotive vocabulary of the Kabardian-Circassian language. The connection between the expression and perception of irony and the cultural prerequisites of society has been noted.
Мadina H. Tokmakova, Boris Ch. Bizhoev
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2013 This paper explores the types of verbal irony employed by resilient youth in spontaneous conversation and examines how they use this irony to navigate potentially challenging psychosocial terrain.
E. Leslie Cameron +4 more
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