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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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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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Investigation and Comparison of Ironic Aspects in Saadi's Gulistan andUbayd Zakani’s Akhlaq al-ashraf [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2022 Irony or double speaking is one of the artistic-literary techniques that, in literature, is equivalent to terms such as sarcasm, praise, contradiction, etc.
Sedighe Taghavi asl +2 more
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The Ironic Death of Josiah in 2 Chronicles [PDF]
, 2006 A discussion of the various accounts of the death of Josiah in the biblical books of Kings and Chronicles.
Christine Mitchell
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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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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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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 MacNeice’s poetry (Irony
Journal of the College of Basic Education, 2023 Abstract This study is divided into two sections and a conclusion. Section one is an introduction and critical reception, while section two talks about MacNeice’s poems and the irony in his poetry. Irony in MacNeice’s poetry seeks to present his perception of the world around his perception of the world around him.And while MacNeice does ...
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