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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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The Chemical Record, EarlyView.This publication describes how R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann crafted their masterpiece publications. Illustrations include Woodward's first draft of the famous “Violations There are none. Nor can violations be expected of so fundamental a principle of maximum bonding.” Original but discarded text shows the stepwise paths toward the W‐H masterpieces.
Jeffrey I. Seeman
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
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A Country That Never Sleeps? A Web Scrapping Analysis of the 24‐h Economy Policy in Ghana
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of revitalizing Ghana's economic landscape through sustainable job creation underpinned by 24‐h operations across all key sectors, the National Democratic Congress proposed the ‘24‐h economy’ policy proposal. This study employs the web‐scraping technique through text mining and python codes to analyse 1820 comments from Facebook, X ...
Pius Gamette +3 more
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Ironi dan sarkasme sebagai coping stress generasi Z di ruang digital
DiglosiaThis study aims to describe and explain Generation Z’s humor processing of irony and sarcasm memes through the Four-Stage Model of Humor Processing, namely expectation, incongruity, resolution, and elaboration, and to examine how such humor functions as ...
Bella Nur Famelia +3 more
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Many nocturnal animals are difficult to study because they are rarely seen, including nocturnal primates, galagos and pottos, in West Africa. Working with over 600 people in 52 villages in southern Guinea‐Bissau, we found that communities frequently recognized galagos by their red eyeshine and distinctive calls, while pottos were not known.
Chloe Chesney +6 more
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THE COMMUNICATIVE VALUE OF IRONY
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2015 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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New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 107-113, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Popular culture exists as an expression of cultural history. It speaks to who we are, what we aspire toward, and where our generation stands in relation to the major issues of the day. This article is a conversation about the myriad perspectives offered in this issue of New Directions for Student Leadership, exploring the contributions each ...
Kathleen Callahan, Sean Connable
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