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Verbal Irony Comprehension in Adults who Speak English as an Additional Language
Studies in Linguistics and Literature, 2022 We examined whether adults who speak English as an Additional Language (EAL) have a decreased ability to comprehend verbal irony compared to native English speakers.
Marta Marta Krygier-Bartz +1 more
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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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Journal of Psychology & Behavior Research, 2022 Methodologies used in behavioral studies on the processing of figurative languages have been criticized for lack of sufficiently fine-grained recordings.
Zhongyang Sun
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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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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2022 This paper reports the results of an experimental study with a between subject design (N = 122) whose aim was to compare irony comprehension rates in face-to-face (FTF) and computer-mediated communication (CMC), and examine the influence of paraverbal ...
R. Ellis
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Some acoustic indicators of verbal irony in semi-spontaneous contexts
Loquens, 2022 Partiendo de una perspectiva de tipo interaccionista, el propósito de esta investigación ha consistido en la elaboración de un trabajo empírico a partir de la realización de tests de percepción discriminatorios y análisis acústicos establecidos ...
Diana Martínez Hernández
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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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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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Disrupting the Chain of Displaced Aggression: A Review and Agenda for Future Research
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displaced aggression refers to instances in which a person redirects their harm‐doing behavior from a primary to a secondary, substitute target. Since the publication of the first empirical article in 1948, there has been a noticeable surge in research referencing this theory in both management and psychology journals.
Constantin Lagios +4 more
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Lexical Signals of Verbal Irony [PDF]
, 2017 Research on verbal irony reveals that the array of verbal and non-verbal signals used to 'season' expressions with ironicalness is quite impressive. Provided the context ensures the fulfillment of the necessary conditions for expressing irony, these ...
Neshkovska, Silvana
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