THE COMMUNICATIVE VALUE OF IRONY
THE COMMUNICATIVE VALUE OF IRONY Irony is common in everyday speech, so much so that sometimes we do not even notice it, that is, we do not assign any communicative value to it, or we equate it with wittiness.
Nikolina Palašić
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The term "pastiche" originally means a "pasty" or "pie" dish containing several different ingredients. It has come to be used synonymously with a variety of terms whose meanings are rarely fixed with clarity: parody, montage, quotation, allusion, irony ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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We are having the inevitable late night conversation. You talk about your eventual wedding, your marriage to the person you love, the timeline you’ve created for yourself, and your plans for what our future children will do together. I clarify that I don’
Nguyen, Cam T.
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Прецедентні феномени як засіб вираження іронії (на матеріалі твору Х. Конзаліка «Гірко-солодкий сьомий рік») (Precedent phenomena as a means of expressing irony (based on work of H. Konzalik «Bitter-sweet seventh year»)) [PDF]
Стаття присвячена проблемі розуміння поняття іронії та вираження її через прецедентні феномени. На матеріалі твору німецької літератури виявлено та проаналізовано прецедентні феномени, з допомогою яких автор твору створює іронічний ефект.
Найдюк, О. (O. Naidiuk)
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Schlegel and the Enemies of the Romantic Irony
Schlegel’s irony, which is the main author along with Solger, of irony in German romanticism, becomes a reinterpretation of the figure of the ironic Plato’s Socrates . Nevertheless, his proposal of a pragmatic irony was rejected in a violent way by Hegel
Vicente Raga Rosaleny
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Resistance Against Assimilation: The Irony of the Melting Pot
The video on the large, flat-screen T.V. plays and shows a small, brown baby lying helpless in the arms of her mother, concealed in a thick and colorful shawl. Sneeze after sneeze seems to come from the newborn, as the room fills with the strong scent of
Paul Mohindra, Vismaya
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The peculiarities of the English ironic discourse
The article deals with irony as a discourse category in the English communicative culture. Optimization of interpersonal relations is singled out as the hyperstrategy of the English irony.
A A Gornostaeva
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Irony and the involvement of the reader in three of Joseph Conrad's short stories : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University [PDF]
As many critics have by now shown, the fiction of Joseph Conrad is particularly significant and interesting with regard to its irony. In their consideration of Conrad's irony most critics have concentrated their attention upon the novels, or upon those ...
Bourke, Lawrence
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Seriousness, Irony, and Cultural Politics: A Defense of Jorge Portilla [PDF]
This essay discusses Jorge Portilla’s phenomenological analysis of values and freedom in his essay, “The Phenomenology of Relajo.” Portilla argues that genuine freedom requires seriousness and sincerity; it requires wholehearted participation in cultural
Gallegos, Francisco
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A Sceptical Look at “A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper” [PDF]
It is an irony to attack a more sceptical epistemology than one's own in the name of scepticism and defend, instead, an epistemology that is positively illogical. And yet that is what Martin Gardner has done in his “A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper.
Lester, J. C.
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