Irony as Expression (of a Sense of the Absurd)
, 2018 Situational irony is, first, explained as a severe violation of one or more established, non-moral norms; such violation constitutes that situation’s absurdity. The classical “inversion” theory of communicative irony associated with Cicero and Quintilian,
Green, Mitchell, Mitchell Green
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THE DYNAMICS OF IRONY IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: COPING WITH A SCHOOL MERGER
, 2012 The potential of an ironic perspective for understanding public service change is portrayed through a re-analysis of data on a merger between two English primary sector schools, an extreme change involving organizational termination alongside phoenix ...
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Understanding the Association Between Humor and Emotional Distress: The Role of Light and Dark Humor in Predicting Depression, Anxiety, and Stress. [PDF]
Eur J Psychol, 2023 Dionigi A, Duradoni M, Vagnoli L.
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Non-consciously processed physical activity for survival versus consciously deliberated exercise for health. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Iso-Ahola SE.
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The audience who knew too much: investigating the role of spontaneous theory of mind on the processing of dramatic irony scenes in film. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Cabañas C, Senju A, Smith TJ.
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Putting the pieces together: the development of children's interpretive judgment through irony
, 2004 This study investigated 6- to 10-year-olds' ability to understand situational irony, verbal irony, and each of these in the presence of the other. It was hypothesized that children interpret situational irony using cognitive event representations and ...
Thelander, Mary J
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A Pragmatic Study of Verbal Irony in Selected Yoruba Home Videos
, 2020 A considerable research has been devoted to verbal irony in Yoruba language in dramatic texts and other written texts but not much attention has been paid to verbal irony in Yoruba home videos.
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Irony as representation of racial segregation in August Wilson "Fences" [PDF]
Irony is figurative language that is frequently employed in literary works as a way to add interest to the text. Irony is a figure of speech employed in a sentence so that the intended meaning is different from the real meaning of the word, according to ...
Maarif, Ihya Aditya Fahmi
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Irony leading to Parody on main characters in Postmodernism fiction novel They Both Die at the End [PDF]
The study of “Irony Leading to Parody on Main Characters in Postmodernism Fiction Novel They Both Die at the End” explores the role of irony in the novel They Both Die at the End and its contribution to parody within the context of postmodernism.
Apriani, Rahma Nurul
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Understanding of ironic and literal utterances in 4-9-year-old typically developing children: role of age, narrative skills, emotion comprehension and executive functions. [PDF]
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