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ON THE PROSODIC CUES OF VERBAL IRONY IN A SITUATION COMEDY
Italiano LinguaDue, 2023 Irony is defined as an instrument used by the speaker to communicate the opposite of real message they intend to convey. However, a number of studies agree in considering irony an attitude related to the need of protecting the personal image of the ...
Glenda Gurrado
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Verbal irony in the wild [PDF]
Pragmatics & Cognition, 2011 Verbal irony constitutes a rough class of indirect intentional communication involving a complex interaction of language-specific and communication-general phenomena. Conversationalists use verbal irony in conjunction with paralinguistic signals such as speech prosody. Researchers examining acoustic features of speech communication usually focus on how
Gregory A. Bryant +2 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012 AbstractThe way we speak can reveal much about what we intend to communicate, but the words we use often only indirectly relate to the meanings we wish to convey. Verbal irony is a commonly studied form of indirect speech in which a speaker produces an explicit evaluative utterance that implicates an unstated, opposing evaluation.
Bryant, Gregory A
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LexisThis article is a small part of an extensive research work that aims to provide an overview of verbal irony in Greek oratory. Our aim is to offer an approach to verbal irony in the strategies of impoliteness in the speeches Against Ctesiphon and On ...
Fornieles Sánchez, Raquel
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Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension
Language and CognitionWhereas some studies suggest that ironic praise necessitates a longer processing time than ironic criticism, others posit that the two are processed at comparable speeds.
Ningning Cao, Ling Zhou, Shaojie Zhang
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A New Analysis of Verbal Irony
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2017 This article contributes a new analysis of verbal irony to the literature. It presents the main analyses of verbal irony – and the main criticisms of these analyses – found in both older and modern literatures as part of its attempt to build a new account for verbal irony.
Alotaibi, Yasir, Yasir Alotaibi
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Psychology of Language and CommunicationResearch on individual differences in irony understanding is not sparse, however the need for cognitive closure (NFC) has not been taken into consideration yet.
Branowska Katarzyna, Koziński Konrad
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Understanding Non-Verbal Irony Markers: Machine Learning Insights Versus Human Judgment
International Conference on Multimodal InteractionIrony detection is a complex task that often stumps both humans, who frequently misinterpret ironic statements, and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
Micol Spitale +2 more
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That was clever of you! Perspectives and verbal irony
Psychology of Language and CommunicationWhat 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. +2 more
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Semantic link of allusions and non-verbal communication in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2023 Irony, as a literary element, brings to mind two external and internal meanings and leaves the reader'sIrony, as a literary element, brings to mind two external and internal meanings and leaves the reader's understanding in suspense and postpones his ...
Zahra Jamshidi, Seyyed Mohammad Arta
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