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What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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The aim of this study is to detect and analyze the relationship between verbal aggressiveness and interpersonal attractiveness using four secondary-school PE classes in central Greece (88 nodes).
Maria Litsa, Alexandra Bekiari
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Teacher–student relationships in practice: Student perceptions of positive teaching
Abstract Background Teacher–student relationships (TSR) significantly shape teaching and learning processes. Current research rarely leverages qualitative analyses of students' perceptions, leaving a critical gap in understanding how positive TSR manifest from students' perspectives.
Orly Shapira +2 more
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Comprehension of Ironic Utterances by Bilingual Children
This study investigates verbal irony comprehension by 6-year old bilingual children speaking Polish and English and living in the USA. Researchers have predominantly focused on monolingual populations when examining non-literal language in young children.
Banasik Natalia, Podsiadło Kornelia
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Cognitive and pragmatic potential of the fiction text: intentionality and implication of irony
The article examines the intentionality and implication of irony from the perspective of its producer and recipient, which allows to identify and describe the functions of irony.
Zaur A. Zavrumov
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Between Laughter and Humility: Functions of Irony in the Middle English Poem Patience [PDF]
The article explores the poetics of irony in the Middle English poem Patience, a distinctive reinterpretation of the biblical story of Jonah and an important example of fourteenth-century alliterative poetry.
Kseniia Vielchieva
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This article analyses the transformation of verbal irony within literary works during adaptation and subtitle translation processes. During the process of adaptation, verbal irony is often altered or lost.
Pužaitė, Urtė, +5 more
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Markers of verbal irony in Macedonian and English newspaper headlines [PDF]
This paper discusses verbal irony in written discourse. More precisely, it offers an insight into various markers of verbal irony used in newspaper headlines to signal an ironic intent of the writer.
Neshkovska, Silvana
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