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To Save a Girl-Child, You Must Train a Boy-Child: A Note on Situational Irony. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Despite numerous initiatives and resources to save and protect the health and sexual rights of girls and women, the persistently high rate of unwanted pregnancy, abortion, and sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has remain a topical public health challenge.
Amoo EO +3 more
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A Study of Situational Irony in Bahan Forsie’s Story [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2021 Bahman Forsy is one of the Contemporary Writers who has Presented Valuable Works in the Field of Fiction to the Literary Community. In this Research, an Attempt is made to Explore the Techniques of Creating Situational Irony in Persian Stories.
Firouz Fazeli +2 more
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On verbal and situational irony
Figurative Thought and Language, 2021 This chapter treats the notion of ironic echo as subsidiary to the broader notion of epistemic scenario, which applies to both verbal and situational irony. In verbal irony, the existence of an epistemic scenario takes the shape of a pretended agreement with someone’s beliefs, which can be materialized in agreement expressions of various kinds ...
Inés Lozano-Palacio +1 more
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The bicoherence theory of situational irony [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2001 AbstractSituational irony concerns what it is about a situation that causes people to describe it as ironic. Although situational irony is as complex and commonplace as verbal and literary irony, it has received nowhere near the same attention from cognitive scientists and other scholars. This paper presents the bicoherence theory of situational irony,
Cameron Shelley
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The Role of Individual Differences and Situational Factors in Perception of Verbal Irony [PDF]
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2016 A study was conducted to analyze the influence of situational and individual factors on verbal irony perception. Participants (N = 144) rated smartness, criticality, humorousness, and offensiveness of ironic utterances and their literal equivalents.
Gucman Magda
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COGNITIVE AND PRAGMATIC MECHANISMS OF GENERATING SITUATIONAL AND ECHOIC IRONY (A CASE STUDY OF THACKERAY’S NOVEL THE HISTORY [PDF]
Alfred Nobel University Journal of PhilologyThe aim of the article is to identify the cognitive and pragmatic mechanisms of irony generation in Thackeray’s Novel, The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest En- emy, while distinguishing between ...
Nataliia N. Kravchenko +1 more
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Irony and Sarcasm in Ethical Perspective
Open Philosophy, 2020 Irony and sarcasm are two quite different, sometimes morally dubious, linguistic tropes. We can draw a distinction between them if we identify irony as a speech act that calls what is bad good and, correspondingly, sarcasm calls good bad.
Timo Airaksinen
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Situational irony in Australian prison radio: humour as a tool for coping and resistance
Media International AustraliaThis article examines the use of humour in a selection of prison radio shows in Australia. Prison radio consists of radio and other audio that involves incarcerated people and their communities, either produced inside prisons – limited to and targeting a prison-based population – or produced outside of correctional centres and ...
Heather Anderson, Reza Arab
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Tragedy, Tragic Irony, and War: A Dialectical Approach
Humanities, 2023 Tragic irony may mean the dramatic irony in scripted tragedy (tragic play). The audience can predict the regrettable outcome on the stage before the main characters do. I focus on non-scripted events and their tragic aspects.
Timo Airaksinen
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Investigation and Comparison of Ironic Aspects in Saadi's Gulistan andUbayd Zakani’s Akhlaq al-ashraf [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2022 Irony or double speaking is one of the artistic-literary techniques that, in literature, is equivalent to terms such as sarcasm, praise, contradiction, etc.
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