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Verbal Irony as a Communicative Mode of Persuasion [PDF]

, 2018
. The general pervasiveness of politics in modern society renders political discourse susceptible to analysis by many different profiles of researchers, especially linguists. This particular paper attempts to shed light on the usage of verbal irony in
Neshkovska, Silvana, Trajkova, Zorica
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
wiley   +1 more source

IRONIC NARRATIVE IN THE LITERARY TEXT: PARAMETERS OF COGNITIVE MODELING

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016
The article discusses the ironic narrative from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistics that allows us to refine the model parameters irony realized in the semantic space of a literary text.
Z A Zavrumov
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Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Gregory Slack
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

Reflection of Irony in O. Henry's The Gift of Magi and Firat Cewerî's Bîsîklêt Stories

Artuklu Kurdology
In this study, an analysis was conducted of the stories of the American short-story writer O. Henry and the Kurdish short-story and novel writer Firat Cewerî, The Gift of Magi and Bîsîklêt, in the context of irony.
Sami Çeliktaş
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Audiovisual prosody and verbal irony

, 2021
Aquesta tesi adopta una perspectiva integral a l'estudi de les marques audiovisuals en la ironia verbal. Els estudis pragmàtics s'han centrat principalment a investigar el paper del context discursiu en la detecció de la ironia, però se sap poc sobre el rol que juguen les marques prosòdiques i gestuals en aquest procés.
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
wiley   +1 more source

Is Oppositeness Necessary for the Interpretation of Verbal Irony? [PDF]

Verbal irony traditionally holds that one says something literally and means the opposite. This paper argues that the ironic intention occurs when the speaker says something that differs from what he intends.
Al-Kuran, Mohammad, Al-Kanakry, Mahmoud
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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
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