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Polish Psychological Bulletin, 2023 : A qualitative study was carried out to survey attitudes towards and feelings associated with verbal irony among gelotophobes and nongelotophobes (gelotophobia denoting the fear of being laughed at).
Piotr Kałowski
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Audiovisual prosody and verbal irony [PDF]
, 2017 Aquesta tesi adopta una perspectiva integral a l'estudi de les marques audiovisuals en la ironia verbal. Els estudis pragmàtics s'han centrat principalment a investigar el paper del context discursiu en la detecció de la ironia, però se sap poc sobre el rol que juguen les marques prosòdiques i gestuals en aquest procés.
González Fuente, Santiago
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Review of Communication Research, 2022 AA significant part of everyday verbal communication consists of nonliteral language, including irony (Gibbs 2000). Efficient irony use can serve a wide range of pragmatic goals, while deficits in irony comprehension can have negative social consequences.
N. Banasik-Jemielniak, Piotr Kałowski
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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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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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Verbal Irony in a TV Series The Office (US) Season 2
Lexicon, 2022 Verbal irony as a figurative language has been conceived in everyday life as its use is common when people communicate with each other. It enables the speaker to express negative intention towards the hearer as well as producing humor elements.
Nabila Nurul Hasyim, Sharifah Hanidar
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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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