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Neural Correlates of Contrast and Humor: Processing Common Features of Verbal Irony. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
Obert A, Gierski F, Calmus A, Flucher A, Portefaix C, Pierot L, Kaladjian A, Caillies S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Verbal Irony Questionnaire

Figurative language is a complex construct related to intelligence. Psychology and psycholinguistics are trying to understand it from an interdisciplinary perspective, but studies are still scarce, methodologies are heterogeneous, and results are difficult to integrate.
Sastre-Riba, Sylvia||, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco J.||, Navarro i Ferrando, Ignasi||, Urraca-Martínez, María Luz||, Cladellas, Ramon||   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
wiley   +1 more source

That was clever of you! Perspectives and verbal irony

Psychology of Language and Communication
What does ironic language indicate about an emotional state? When we experience negative events, we may produce an ironic comment about our experience to cope. We tested whether using irony indexes less negative emotional states of speakers and listeners
Pfeifer Valeria A., Mehl Matthias R., Lai Vicky Tzuyin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Banter: A Systematic Review of Literature to Conceptualize the Behaviors That Characterize Banter

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts, Sarah L. Buglass, Loren Abell, Oonagh L. Steer, Angelica Balaos   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fragments of theatrical revelations: James Joyce’s “Epiphanies”

Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2011
The essay proposes an approach to the Dramatic Epiphanies, Joyce’s early works, as self- contained pieces of dramatic writing. The tools of conversational analysis are applied to the texts, which reveal the author’s grasp on dramatic dialogue, his ...
Romana Zacchi
doaj  

The I in logic

Theoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic Representation of Prosodic Cues during the Production of Persian Irony and Sarcasm in Spontaneous Discourse [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Educational Research
Objective: The present study has tackled to assess the interaction between lexical-syntactic and prosodic cues of irony, and the fact that how the cues are represented during the production of irony and sarcasm (as one of highly functional irony subtypes)
Raha Koochacki, Mohammad Hossein Sharafzadeh, Ameneh Zare   +2 more
doaj  

Address Terms of Brotherhood in the Indian Online Gaming Community

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indian gamers are part of the Indian society as well as a globalised gaming community. To navigate this cultural dissonance, they can use address terms to reflect and create their double or divided identities. This article investigates forms and functions of kinship terms that are connected to the concept of brother ‘male sibling’, for example,
Linnea Garlepow
wiley   +1 more source