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Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology
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
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Initial exploration into sarcasm and irony through machine translation
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
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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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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]
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
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
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
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Verbal Irony and Situational Irony : Why do people use verbal irony? [PDF]
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]
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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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
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