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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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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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A New Analysis of Verbal Irony [PDF]
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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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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Effects of Emotional Intelligence on the Impression of Irony Created by the Mismatch between Verbal and Nonverbal Cues. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Emotional information is conveyed through verbal and nonverbal signals, with nonverbal cues often being considered the decisive factor in the judgment of others' emotional states.
Heike Jacob +4 more
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This project investigated how speakers and listeners are perceived to feel when they use use verbal ...
Valeria Pfeifer
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Finding Irony: An Introduction of the Verbal Irony Procedure (VIP) [PDF]
Metaphor and Symbol, 2011 This article introduces the Verbal Irony Procedure (VIP), a first systematic method for identifying irony in natural discourse. The first section discusses previous operationalizations of irony and demonstrates that these are not explicit about which criteria were used to separate irony from non-irony. The second section argues why irony can be defined
Burgers, C.F. +3 more
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“Polycode” irony as a sign of modern media-political discourse [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 The purpose of this research is to conduct a comprehensive linguoculturological analysis of verbal and non-verbal means of expressing “polycode” irony in modern Russian political discursive practices.
Bozhenkova Natalya, Kalichkina Tamara
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A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Emojis are ideograms that are becoming ubiquitous in digital communication. However, no research has yet investigated how humans process semantic and pragmatic content of emojis in real time.
Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner
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Attenuated impression of irony created by the mismatch of verbal and nonverbal cues in patients with autism spectrum disorder. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Perception of irony has been observed to be impaired in adults with autism spectrum disorder. In typically developed adults, the mismatch of verbal and nonverbal emotional cues can be perceived as an expression of irony even in the absence of any further
Simon Nuber +4 more
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