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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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European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Literature offers valuable insight into defensive routines, which are acknowledged by academics as barriers to organizational learning and innovation. Nevertheless, we find that there is a lack of attention in examining why defensive routines are persistent in organizational life.
Mercedes‐Victoria Auqui‐Caceres +1 more
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Stylistic Signals of Verbal Irony [PDF]
, 2015 The subtle nature of ironic expressions, which very frequently serve to elegantly but covertly ‘sting’ the interlocutor, inevitably entails using cues or signals which point to the ironic intent of the ironist.
Neshkovska, Silvana
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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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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this essay, I will tell the reader about the relationship between Academia—the person, Academia—the institution, and too many female academics. Through these experiences, I will offer examples of some of the typical abuse experienced at the hands of Academia.
Steffi Siegert
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In my experience, the end of a female friendship came to symbolically represent the erosion of female solidarity as (I thought) I knew it. In this paper, I first present an evocative autoethnographic narrative that foregrounds the emotional toll of losing solidarity with a close childhood friend.
Daniela Aliberti
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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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SCHWARZ BIN ICH UND SCHÖN – RHETORISCHE IRONIE IM HOHELIED1
Acta Theologica, 2018 BLACK AM I AND BEAUTIFUL – RHETORICAL IRONY IN SONG OF SONGS This article argues for an ironic understanding of Song of Songs 1:5-6. The linguistic irony carries a second meaning contrary to the first more obvious one, being expressed as verbal and ...
S Fischer
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Verbal irony and the Maxims of Grice\u27s cooperative principle
, 1995 This paper makes reference to Brown and Levinson\u27s Politeness Theory, and their treatment of irony as an off record strategy. These authors consider that different off record strategies violate or flout different maxims, and "being ironic" is labelled
Alba Juez, Laura
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick +2 more
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