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"Kings and Poets: Self-Irony in Selected Poems by George Seferis and Derek Mahon" [PDF]
, 2011 The chapter compares the issue of (self-)irony in the poems of the Irish poet Derek Mahon and the Modern Greek Nobelist poet George Seferis, mainly in Mahon's "Archaeologist" and Seferis's "King of Asine"
Kruczkowska, Joanna
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The relationship between irony and sarcasm: insights from a first-order metalanguage investigation [PDF]
, 2017 The relationship between irony and sarcasm has been much discussed and yet there is still little agreement on how the two relate at a theoretical level, as Attardo (2000: 795) notes “there is no consensus on whether irony and sarcasm are essentially the ...
Alvarado Ortega +17 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Irony has repeatedly been suggested as a language based social cognition task. It has been argued to show specific variances in psychiatric disorders and healthy adults with certain personality traits.
Carolin Kieckhäfer +4 more
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Initial exploration into sarcasm and irony through machine translation
Natural Language Processing JournalIn this paper, we investigate sarcasm and irony as seen through a novel perspective of machine translation. We employ various techniques for translation, comparing both manually and automatically translated datasets of irony and sarcasm. We first clarify
Zheng Lin Chia +4 more
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Llorenç Vilallonga: la ironia o la civilització [PDF]
, 2006 In the present article the author studies the importance of irony in Llorenç Villalonga’s work using as a touchstone the novel «Flo la Vigne». In the first place he analyzes the conception of irony that the writer has: a tool for approaching the world ...
Simbor Roig, Vicent
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Variables as Contextual Constraints in Translating Irony
Linguaculture, 2015 The translator’s role and responsibility are high in any act of interlingual communication, and even higher when irony, an indirect and deliberately elusive form of communication, is involved in the translation process. By allowing more than one possible
Babîi Oana
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Irony in the Eye of the Beholder. Review of "Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony" by Linda Hutcheon [PDF]
, 1995 Hutcheon's fundamental principle, and the point which sets her work apart from the mass of formalist and intentionalist analysis of irony that has gone before, is that irony is an event which is inferred by the reader/watcher/listener, rather than a ...
Phiddian, Robert Andrew
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On the Ways of Creating Structural Irony in English Literary Discourse
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The concept of structural irony is traditionally associated with an implication of alternate or reversed meaning that pervades a work. A major technique for sustaining structural irony is the use of a naïve protagonist or unreliable narrator who ...
Ovshieva Nalya
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Carles Soldevila ironista: «Valentina» [PDF]
, 2016 Resum: El present article té com a objectiu estudiar la importància de la ironia en Carles Soldevila mitjançant l’anàlisi de la novel·la Valentina, publicada l’any 1933.
Simbor i Roig, Vicent
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“Oh, now I get it ...”: comic dupe irony in print advertising
Acta Academica, 2013 Advertising texts are typically designed to engage audiences in the process of meaning construction. This article conducts a relevance theoretic analysis of a sample of print advertisements that employ a specific type of irony towards this goal, based ...
Marthinus Conradie
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