Results 21 to 30 of about 33,845 (311)
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.
openaire +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
’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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
"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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
The Verbal Irony Questionnaire: An Initial Approach to the Conceptualization and Measurement of Verbal Irony in High Intellectual Ability. [PDF]
J IntellFigurative 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 ...
Sastre-Riba S +4 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Socratic Irony and Argumentation [PDF]
, 2022 Socratic irony can be understood independently of the immortal heroics of Plato’s Socrates. We need a systematic account and criticism of it both as a debate-winning strategy of argumentation and teaching method.
Airaksinen, Timo
core +1 more source