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Managing competing logics through situational irony

open access: yesInternational Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2015
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on how actors manage competing logics in an organizational field. The authors do so by introducing the concept of organizational irony to the literature on how to manage competing logics, and analyze a collaborative cultural project encompassing actors subjected to competing institutional ...
Erik Wikberg, Niklas Bomark
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Situational Irony

open access: yes, 2017
When a situation feels like a story, we call it ironic. It seems audience-directed, though we know it is not. On the other hand, a large class of situations that strike people as ironic are simple incongruities, with no apparent connection to how stories work. This chapter therefore proposes a model that applies equally to ironies of simple incongruity
G. R. F. Ferrari
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Verbal and situational irony

2022
Abstract Unlike metaphor and metonymy, irony has no “standardized” conceptual tools to rely on for its detection. The detection of irony proceeds entirely on-line; its comprehension does not rest on prior acquisition of conventional figures in the processes of language learning; it rests on our ability to establish, creatively and on-line, a dynamic ...
Branimir Belaj   +1 more
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Situational Irony in Farcical News Headlines

2020
Current approaches to the computational modelling of irony mostly address verbal irony and sarcasm, neglecting other productive types of irony, namely situational irony. The function of situational irony is to lay emphasis on (real or fictional) events that evoke peculiar and unexpected images, which usually create a comical effect on the audience.
Paula Carvalho 0001   +5 more
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The development of complex metarepresentational reasoning: The case of situational irony

Cognitive Development, 1995
Abstract Situational irony requires the representation of events that end contrary to expectation, as if in mockery of the fitness of things. It entails metarepresentational reasoning because event representations must be manipulated to recognize and construct ironic events.
Joan Lucariello, Catherine Mindolovich
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The Intersectional Exploitation And The Situational Irony Of Disabled Lumpenproletariat In The Novel Motherless Brooklyn

Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology, 2023
This paper explores marginalization effected by the intersectionality of psychological disability and class-based subalternity in the novel ‘Motherless Brooklyn’. Through analyzing characters afflicted by psychological disabilities and how their class situations lead them to involve themselves in exploitatory endeavors, this paper focuses on the ...
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Situational irony: A concept of events gone awry.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1994
An event can be classified as situationally ironic when it deviates from routine in certain ways. In Study 1, a taxonomy of situational ironic event kinds was developed and features of these events were identified. Features included unexpectedness, human frailty, opposition, and outcome (the experience of loss or win). Study 2, category production, and
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Situational and Verbal Irony, and Paradox Revisited

Language and Information, 2006
This paper revisits some old issues of irony, i.e., situational vs. verbal irony, and irony vs. paradox, in order to further clarify the issues. Although these issues seem to have been fully discussed, there are still unresolved and/or vague aspects that need to be accounted for. This paper also revisits the issue of theorizing the phenomenon of verbal
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The media and the irony of politically serious situations: consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland

Media, Culture & Society, 2012
This article discusses the connections between political conflicts and situational irony and their relationship to the media. The focus is on a continuum of ironic events that started from the crisis following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which led to a satirical comic strip being published on the ...
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