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Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2016
The main aim of the presented study was to investigate the influence of voice intonation on the comprehension of ironic utterances in 4- to 6-year-old Polish-speaking children. 83 preschool children were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (Banasik &
Zajączkowska Maria Katarzyna
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The Irony in Supplications: A Study in Structural Semantics The structural irony, the irony of conception or visualization and the gestural irony

open access: yesدراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2023
The irony comes in different forms and multiple patterns, according to the amount of influence, how it is formed, sides of paradox, appearance and meaning, creator's point of view, function of paradox in presenting image and meaning, etc. The research tried to determine the circle of its study on some paradox patterns such as The structural irony, the ...
MohammadHosein Kakoei, Abbas Ganjali
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Irony: Kevin Field, Ron Samsom, Olivier Holland [Compact disc]

open access: yes, 2012
The FSH Trio is a collaborative project initiated by Ron Samsom in conjunction with Rattle. Kevin, Ron and Olivier have been the rhythm section of choice for many artists over the last decade, including internationally renowned Nathan Haines.
Holland, OS, Field, KD, Samsom, Ronald
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Signaling irony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Bearing in mind the subtlety of verbal irony and the fact that its interpretation is a very specific process of inference, the recognition of verbal irony is heavily reliant on the so-called signals, markers or cues of irony.
Lazarevska Stanchevska, Jovanka   +1 more
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Forms of irony in Carl Schmitt's Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus

open access: yes, 2019
The argument for the role of various crises of modernity in the totalitarian violence of the twentieth century is well known. At the heart, however, of Carl Schmitt's own role in this troubling history, lies a certain irony which complicates the reading,
Bikundo, E, Manderson, D
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Uncertainty Quantification for Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging Without Additional Datasets

open access: yesMagnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) is subject to physiological noise, thermal noise, and signal corruption, which cause errors in diffusion measures. While a larger dataset can be decimated to investigate the general precision of measures from fitting smaller datasets, uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods for fitting entire ...
Sam Coveney   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variables as Contextual Constraints in Translating Irony

open access: yesLinguaculture, 2015
The translator’s role and responsibility are high in any act of interlingual communication, and even higher when irony, an indirect and deliberately elusive form of communication, is involved in the translation process. By allowing more than one possible
Babîi Oana
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Edith Wharton's irony : from the short stories to the infinitudes

open access: yes, 1990
Although Edith Wharton is finally recognized as a major American novelist, her remarkable canon of short stories has been largely ignored. Such neglect is regrettable, for the diversity of the stories suggests that some common perceptions of Wharton may ...
Brown, Mary M.
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Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Verbal irony and the Maxims of Grice\u27s cooperative principle

open access: yes, 1995
This paper makes reference to Brown and Levinson\u27s Politeness Theory, and their treatment of irony as an off record strategy. These authors consider that different off record strategies violate or flout different maxims, and "being ironic" is labelled
Alba Juez, Laura
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