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An education in irony: why academics need to be funny [PDF]
, 2016 First paragraph: Despite what some people might think, academics are not all humourless boffins out of touch with the real world. They can also be funny, and some are turning to humour to help get their messages across.https://theconversation.com/an ...
Batlle, Ioannis, Watson, Cate
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Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.A conceptual framework of virtual water showing its sources, major applications, components of the virtual water footprint, and emerging future directions. The diagram emphasizes the growing role of virtual water in global sustainability and resource planning.
Priti Bhowmik +2 more
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. ЯзыкознаниеThe relevance of the study is determined by the demand for “new sincerity” that has emerged in society. Reflecting modern trends, mass media highlight the urgency of research into this phenomenon from various angles.
Ekaterina A. Zvereva +2 more
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Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2011 The article treats verbal irony in the poetry of two emblematic Estonian poets, Heiti Talvik and Betti Alver. The texts analysed are from the 1930s. Following the example of many scholars of irony, I have distinguished between two basic types of irony ...
Katrin Puik
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On the Very Idea of Romantic Irony [PDF]
, 2014 My main goal here is to emphasize that what we could call Rortian pragmatics of language involves the combination of two complex of images. On the one hand the image of the constant re-weaving and widening of experiential circles, a sort of material,
Lavagnino, Nicolás Alejo
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Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The present study examined factors predicting employee participation in employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs). Despite the plausible benefits of ESPPs for participating employees, many employees do not participate in ESPPs even when they are eligible.
Joo Hun Han +4 more
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Alternative Data for Realised Volatility Forecasting: Limit Order Book and News Stories
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether two major alternative data sources, limit order book information and firm‐specific news, provide incremental predictive information for daily realised volatility forecasting within the HAR‐family, using a parsimonious framework to ensure practical implementation and comparability. The framework is designed for practical real‐
Eghbal Rahimikia, Ser‐Huang Poon
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Cognitive and pragmatic potential of the fiction text: intentionality and implication of irony
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016 The article examines the intentionality and implication of irony from the perspective of its producer and recipient, which allows to identify and describe the functions of irony.
Zaur A. Zavrumov
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, 2016 During the Renaissance, irony was seen as a macro-textual figure that could run through an entire discourse and/or as a trope (or microtextual figure), with irony being built on a succession of tropes.
Véronique Montagne +1 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophical accounts of long‐term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about ...
Mario I. Juarez‐Garcia
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