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Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
wiley   +1 more source

Initial exploration into sarcasm and irony through machine translation

open access: yesNatural Language Processing Journal
In 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
doaj   +1 more source

A New Test for Irony Detection: The Influence of Schizotypal, Borderline, and Autistic Personality Traits

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

'Requisite irony' and the knowledge based economy: a critical discourse analysis of the drafting of education policy in the european union

open access: yes, 2008
This chapter makes a case for combining the critical analysis of discourse with an embrace of ‘self-reflexive irony’ (Jessop, 2002, 2004a) in the investigation of the articulations between the Knowledge Based Economy (KBE) and education policy in the ...
Jones, Peter D., Jones, P
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Virgin soil in irony research: Personality, humor, and the “sense of irony” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
he aim of the paper is fourfold: (a) show why humor scholars should study irony, (b) explore the need for considering interindividual differences in healthy adults’ irony performance, (c) stress the necessity for developing tools assessing habitual ...
Hofmann, Jennifer   +2 more
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Effect of irony training on children’s processing and comprehension of irony

open access: yes, 2023
Recently, there has been a growing interest in irony training studies (Pexman, Reggin, & Lee, 2019). These studies aim to 1) find a protocol to improve irony comprehension among groups that struggle in their irony comprehension and 2) to test ...
Penny M. Pexman   +5 more
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Disrupting the Chain of Displaced Aggression: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Displaced aggression refers to instances in which a person redirects their harm‐doing behavior from a primary to a secondary, substitute target. Since the publication of the first empirical article in 1948, there has been a noticeable surge in research referencing this theory in both management and psychology journals.
Constantin Lagios   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Verbal Irony and Situational Irony : Why do people use verbal irony? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Many studies on verbal irony has mostly concentrated on the definition and nature of irony, i.e., the question of "what is verbal irony?" The motive for the use of verbal irony, on the other hand, has not been the center of the studies of verbal irony as
Jeong, JaYeon
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Towards redefining Socratic irony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Please cite as follows: Warren, L. 2013. Towards redefining Socratic irony. Akroterion, 58:1-17, doi:10.7445/58-0-144.The original publication is available at http://akroterion.journals.ac.zaThe nature and function of Socratic irony has been much ...
Warren, L.
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One Hundred Years of the German Soil Science Society (DBG) 1926–2026: Origins, Facts, and Background of an Eventful History

open access: yesJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On its 100th anniversary in 2026, the German Soil Science Society (DBG) is looking back not only on an eventful history with traditions and impressive achievements but also with painful interruptions and ruptures. One curious fact is that the DBG was initially founded as the national section of the International Soil Science Society (ISSS ...
Karl‐Heinz Feger
wiley   +1 more source

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