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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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The Irony from the perspective of the Reception Theory [PDF]
This research deals with the irony as a social mediator, a mechanism aimed at communicating the social reform messages. This mechanism has been considered by many contemporary Arab researchers.
Ali Andalib +3 more
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Irony in Selected Articles by Galal Amer [PDF]
This study aims at expressing how irony is discovered and understood in GalalAmer’s verbal utterances. Of concern in this study is to explain how a reader successfully comprehends the speaker’s implied meaning in an ironical verbal utterances.
Marina Nagah Attia
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El proyecto GRIALE para la ironía en español: conceptos previos
The aim of this article is to present an outline of the main working lines of GRIALE researching group. This group, integrated by members of the Department of Hispanic Philology from the Universidad de Alicante, has as first task the study of ...
Leonor Ruiz Gurillo +3 more
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ON THE PROSODIC CUES OF VERBAL IRONY IN A SITUATION COMEDY
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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’n Perspektief op ironie in die hedendaagse Afrikaanse taalgebruik
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
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
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
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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Irony is a broad concept with many cultural and artistic manifestations of criticism, sarcasm, humor, parody, and even tragedy. It can represent various intellectual and emotional states, such as criticism, self-criticism, curiosity, entertainment ...
Zaruhi Antonyan
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