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’n Perspektief op ironie in die hedendaagse Afrikaanse taalgebruik
Literator, 2001 A discussion of irony in contemporary Afrikaans The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of irony as used in contemporary Afrikaans language.
T. van der Merwe
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Irony and Perspective-Taking in Children: The Roles of Norm Violations and Tone of Voice
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In order to understand most, if not any communicative act, the listener needs to make inferences about what the speaker intends to convey. This perspective-taking process is especially challenging in the case of nonliteral uses of language such as verbal
Franziska Köder +3 more
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La ironía en la novela Dos Crímenes de Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Moderna Språk, 2023 Jorge Ibargüengoitia is one of the most prominent writers in 20th-century Mexican literature. This study provides an analysis of his narrative in the work Dos Crímenes.
Antonio Vázquez +1 more
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Irony and the other Off Record Strategies within Politeness Theory
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1995 The present paper is part of a more complete study of the phenomenon of verbal irony within the framework of Politeness theory as presented by Brown and Levinson in their book Politeness: Some Universals in Language Use (1987, first published 1978). The
Laura Alba Juez
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Studying Irony Detection Beyond Ironic Criticism: Let's Include Ironic Praise
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Studies of irony detection have commonly used ironic criticisms (i.e., mock positive evaluation of negative circumstances) as stimulus materials. Another basic type of verbal irony, ironic praise (i.e., mock negative evaluation of positive circumstances)
Richard Bruntsch +3 more
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Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2020 The paper deals with the problem of relations between verbal irony and metalinguistic features of the natural language. It is shown that the irony in the vast majority of situations involves the reaction to a real or imagined speech, which proceeds from ...
Ekaterina Starodworskaja
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Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2011 The article treats verbal irony in the poetry of two emblematic Estonian poets, Heiti Talvik and Betti Alver. The texts analysed are from the 1930s. Following the example of many scholars of irony, I have distinguished between two basic types of irony ...
Katrin Puik
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2013 This paper explores the types of verbal irony employed by resilient youth in spontaneous conversation and examines how they use this irony to navigate potentially challenging psychosocial terrain.
E. Leslie Cameron +4 more
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2022 Background In verbal irony we often convey meanings that oppose the literal words. To look behind these words, we need to integrate perspectives of ourselves, others, and their beliefs about us. Although patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Anne Katrin Felsenheimer +2 more
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IRONY IN CHARLES DICKEN'S OLIVER TWIST
Englisia, 2016 This paper describes the types of irony used by Charles Dickens in his notable early work, Oliver Twist, as well as the reasons the irony was chosen. As a figurative language, irony is utilized to express one’s complex feelings without truly saying them.
Ika Kana Trisnawati +2 more
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