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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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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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Is leisure‐time reading related to empathy and social skills in 8‐ to 10‐year‐old children?
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract There is growing interest in the effects of reading on empathy and prosocial behaviour but not enough is known about the associations among these variables in children. In a study undertaken at a single time point, we examined children's leisure reading and self‐reported prosocial behaviour, and whether the relation between them was mediated ...
Alan Garnham +3 more
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Teacher–student relationships in practice: Student perceptions of positive teaching
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.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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‘Do You Realise People Are Dying There?!’: Ukrainian Adolescents Reflecting on Death During Wartime
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Romania think and speak about death and loss amid war and displacement. While contemporary Western societies display an unprecedented visibility of death, they continue to exclude children from genuine conversations about mortality, maintaining a protective silence.
Adriana Teodorescu, Alina Bărbuță
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Irony as Inferred Contradiction
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2014 “If we acknowledge the existence of an Irony Principle, we should also acknowledge another ‘higher-order principle’ which has the opposite effect.
Laura Alba-Juez
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Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension
Language and CognitionWhereas some studies suggest that ironic praise necessitates a longer processing time than ironic criticism, others posit that the two are processed at comparable speeds.
Ningning Cao, Ling Zhou, Shaojie Zhang
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Interactional functions of raised eyebrows by ironists and their addressees
The European Journal of Humour ResearchIrony is not an exclusively verbal phenomenon: it may also be accompanied by bodily-visual cues such as facial expressions, head movements and gaze behaviour (e.g. de Vries et al., 2021).
Julie Janssens +2 more
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Irony as a figure of speech and moral stance (with regard to Wittlin and Kierkegaard
Przestrzenie Teorii, 2015 In his work as a writer, Józef Wittlin searched for literature able to grant the reader moral support, while at the same time being artistically successful.
Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake
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Literal/non literal and the processing of verbal irony
Pragmalinguistica, 2000 In the present article a terminological distinction between bypassed 'proposition expressed' and entertained 'proposition expressed' is suggested from a cognitive perspective (mainly relevance-theoretic). Underlying this terminological proposal is the claim that the faster, slower, or nonexistent identification of irony depends on the number of ...
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