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Verbal Irony in Translation: LXX Amos 4:4–5, Isaiah 47:12–13, Ezekiel 28:3–5

open access: yesZeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2022
This study explores the use of verbal irony in three case studies across the Septuagint Prophets: Amos 4:4–5, Isa 47:12–13, and Ezek 28:3–5. In the MT, all three of these passages make use of verbal irony to express criticism.
Matthew Pawlak
exaly   +2 more sources

FGVIrony: A Chinese Dataset of Fine-grained Verbal Irony

Information Processing and Management
Qianlong Wang, Lin Gui, Yunfei Long
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Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies

Metaphor and Symbol, 2023
We carried out a systematic review of psycholinguistic, empirical, quantitative studies on verbal irony use and individual differences (i.e. psychological, not demographic, traits that significantly differentiate individuals).
Piotr Kałowski   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is Oppositeness Necessary for the Interpretation of Verbal Irony?

Journal of the Faculties of Arts, 2023
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.
محمد القرعان   +1 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

On verbal irony

Lingua, 1992
Some years ago, a referendum was held on whether Britain should enter the Common Market. There was a long campaign beforehand: television programmes were devoted to it; news magazines brought out special issues. At the height of the campaign, an issue of the satirical magazine Private Eye appeared.
Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber
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Mixed and ambiguous emotions can be studied with verbal irony

Cognitive neuroscience, 2023
In this commentary we draw attention to a context involving mixed and ambiguous emotions: verbal irony. Irony is frequently used, evokes mixed emotional responses (e.g., criticism and amusement), and has been the focus of recent cognitive neuroscience ...
Valeria A Pfeifer, P. Pexman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Verbal and situational irony

2022
Abstract Unlike metaphor and metonymy, irony has no “standardized” conceptual tools to rely on for its detection. The detection of irony proceeds entirely on-line; its comprehension does not rest on prior acquisition of conventional figures in the processes of language learning; it rests on our ability to establish, creatively and on-line, a dynamic ...
Branimir Belaj   +1 more
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An Analysis of Verbal Irony in Emma Donoghue™s Room

Journal of English language teaching and learning, 2023
The objectives of this study were to find out 1) To found out what types of verbal irony used in the novel, 2) To found out the literal meaning of the verbal irony, 3) To found out the realization of the verbal irony.
Melvi Dwi Arfina Harahap   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online

Humor
As verbal irony, including jocular irony, is common in many cultures and since language learners have difficulty with it in the target language, L2 educators have made efforts to help learners recognize irony.
Caleb Prichard
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A Study of Verbal Irony in Pride and Prejudice from the Perspective of Relevance Theory

Modern Linguistics
Pride and Prejudice is one of the greatest novels of the 19th century in Britain, and its most distinctive linguistic feature is satire and humor. This paper analyzes the art of verbal irony in this literary classic from the perspective of Relevance ...
梦迪 杨
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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