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Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)Satire has not been given the humorologists’ attention to an extent that would do justice to the amount of humor satire actually holds. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to shed light on satire as humorous discourse, with an emphasis on ...
Adi Maslo
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Science sans conscience : la satire de la science dans l’œuvre de Jonathan Swift
Etudes Epistémè, 2006 Satire on science has often been regarded by critics as a marginal aspect of Jonathan Swift’s work. Yet it is part and parcel of a battle that the author of Gulliver’s Travels indefatigably fought against the "Moderns." Swift’s satire on science should ...
Nathalie Zimpfer
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EMPIRE: A robust empirical reconstruction of solar irradiance variability
, 2017 We present a new empirical model of total and spectral solar irradiance (TSI and SSI) variability entitled EMPirical Irradiance REconstruction (EMPIRE).
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Deconstructing the symbolic city:Jerome as guide to late antique Rome [PDF]
, 2012 This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do
Grig, Lucy
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
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International Journal of Communication, 2021 The potential of television satire, an important means of denunciation of abuses of power and incompetence by politicians, can be limited in post-authoritarian democracies, where previous arrangements between political elites and media may hinder what ...
Martín Echeverría, Frida V. Rodelo
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Solar cycle variation in solar irradiance
, 2014 The correlation between solar irradiance and the 11-year solar activity cycle is evident in the body of measurements made from space, which extend over the past four decades.
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From Queen Caroline to Lady Dedlock: Dickens and the popular radical imagination [PDF]
, 2004 On an autumn day in 1842, William Hone lay dying. He was by now an obscure figure, but through the services of an old friend, George Cruikshank, he sent a request to Charles Dickens that he might shake his hand before he died.
Ledger, Sally
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Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
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