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Irony Comprehension in the Nonnative Language Comes at a Cost

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2016
Irony as a communicative phenomenon continues to puzzle. One of the key questions concerns cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underpinning irony comprehension.
Bromberek-Dyzman Katarzyna   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Between Laughter and Humility: Functions of Irony in the Middle English Poem Patience [PDF]

open access: yesAlfred Nobel University Journal of Philology
The article explores the poetics of irony in the Middle English poem Patience, a distinctive reinterpretation of the biblical story of Jonah and an important example of fourteenth-century alliterative poetry.
Kseniia Vielchieva
doaj   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

POSTMODERN IRONY AND LAUGH: SPECIFIC FEATURES AND SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION [PDF]

open access: yesВісник 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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Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the multifaceted dynamics of student sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI)‐based education by integrating sentiment analysis techniques with statistical methods, including Monte Carlo simulations and decision tree modelling, alongside qualitative grounded theory analysis.
Volkan Duran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Irony Approach in the Qur'an: Mustansir Mir's Perspective

open access: yesAJIS: Academic Journal of Islamic Studies, 2020
In the Qur’an interpretation, the irony approach is hardly ever used by commentators. Muntasir Mir is one of the commentators who used the irony approach in analyzing the.
Azam Azam
doaj   +1 more source

Contrasting Dimensions behind the Use of Irony and Humour in Times of Crisis

open access: yesPółrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2023
In this article the discourse of irony and humor is explored in two sets of memes generated in times of crisis, namely the recent Covid pandemic and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Laura Alba-Juez
doaj   +1 more source

Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

El estudio de la ironía en el texto literario

open access: yesCuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013
Pragmatics and narratology are the basis of this study on irony. One understands some pragmatic aspects and the dramatic structure of the ironic texts. Several of the participants' characteristics in the ironic communication are studied.
Asunción Barreras Gómez
doaj   +1 more source

Herodotean Ironies

open access: yesHistos, 2018
‘Irony/ironic’ are terms frequently used in discussion of Herodotus, whether applied to particular passages or to the text as a whole. This paper aims to distinguish different types of irony which have been or can be detected in the text of the Histories, and to map these on a spectrum ranging from those which are clearly indicated by the narrator to ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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