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The Complexity of Irony with its Types and Layers to Displaying the Vices of the Society in Jane Austen's Emma [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-FayūmIrony is not a simple stylistic device used in literary work to enrich its meaning and themes. Irony is essential to both the writer's and the readers' cultural backgrounds.
ماجد محمد عبد الفتاح حسن
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Two conceptualizations of pathways to moderating power asymmetries in humanitarian practice have emerged in localization discourse—one emphasizing procedural reforms and the other highlighting relational transformation. Dominant Global North‐mediated localization frameworks emphasize procedural approaches with a focus on shifting to a direct ...
Meghan Sullivan
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Using Verbal Irony to Move on with Controversial Issues [PDF]
Organization Science, 2020 Irony is an effective means of dealing with controversy in organizations, but there is a paucity of knowledge of the various ways in which irony helps managers to do so without necessarily ‘solving’ those issues. By drawing on discursive incongruity theory, we examine the use of irony when managers are confronted with controversial issues in a ...
Winston Kwon +4 more
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Integrating multimodal data and machine learning for entrepreneurship research
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Extant research in neuroscience suggests that human perception is multimodal in nature—we model the world integrating diverse data sources such as sound, images, taste, and smell. Working in a dynamic environment, entrepreneurs are expected to draw on multimodal inputs in their decision making.
Yash Raj Shrestha, Vivianna Fang He
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Verbal Irony and Situational Irony : Why do people use verbal irony? [PDF]
, 2004 Many studies on verbal irony has mostly concentrated on the definition and nature of irony, i.e., the question of "what is verbal irony?" The motive for the use of verbal irony, on the other hand, has not been the center of the studies of verbal irony as
Jeong, JaYeon
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Perspective-taking and verbal irony understanding
, 2021 In this project, we train 6-year-olds in different forms of perspective-taking and evaluate how these trainings impact their understanding of verbal ...
Christelle Declercq +2 more
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Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
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Measuring New Venture Legitimacy: A Multi‐dimensional Approach Using Computational Textual Analysis
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Legitimacy is critical for the growth, survival and performance of ventures, yet efforts to measure legitimacy empirically typically focus on a single dimension of this multi‐dimensional construct. In this article, we develop a multi‐dimensional framework for measuring legitimacy using computational text analysis.
Ali Ghods +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Verbal Irony in Political Discourse [PDF]
, 2013 Verbal irony is a very powerful ‘weapon’ in people’s everyday speech; a device for concealing their true intentions and avoiding responsibility for what they say. Traditionally, verbal irony has been defined as any utterance which is intended to convey
Lazarevska Stanchevska, Jovanka +1 more
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