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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
This study offers a pragmatic account of verbal irony, arguing that verbal irony can be best treated as a special type of conversational implicature.As the first part of the thesis, Grice's theory of conversational implicature is revised. This is done by 1)an addition to Grice's Maxim of Quality so …
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Irony and women in Herodotus.
… argue that these stories are characterised by an irony or ambiguity which unsettles a construction of women as ‘other’. We question whether the concept of polar opposites (war and marriage, for example) is a helpful way to consider the respective roles of men and women. We also test some of the …
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Irony in De Civitate Dei
Irony in the "De Civitate Dei” is a vital force and power of expression by which right is defended and truth avenged. In the above work, this figure so forms the basis of its logical treatment, that each situation, freighted as it is with meaning, is readily apprehended in the light of its proper …
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George Eliot's Use of Irony
Using the term irony in both the pregeneric sense to mean an attitude or world vision and in the rhetorical sense as a narrative strategy, this thesis traces the movement of irony in George Eliot's fiction (with brief references to the essays) from a largely verbal, corrective device in the early …
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Irony in the novelettes of Edith Wharton.
The purpose of this study, entitled "Irony in the Novelettes of Edith Wharton," is to show that as a conscious stylist Mrs. Wharton imbued with a framework of irony the eight novelettes discussed. The individual works are Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes, The Marne, Ethan Frome, False Dawn, The Old …
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Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol
… characterizes the particular brands of irony at work in Gogol's fiction over the course of his career and analyzes how they are generated, how they act upon readers, and how they relate to the broader aesthetic and ideological project to which Gogol ultimately dedicated himself - namely, …
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A pragmatic study on verbal irony in Spanish.
A pragmatic study on verbal irony in Spanish.
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Irony and the secular poems of John Donne
Abstract not available.
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… Kierkegaard's "The Seducer's Diary." Chapter 3, "Irony," claims that Kierkegaard felt a Bloomian anxiety of Byron's influence. By accusing a contemporary of plagiarizing his pseudonymous books in a dissertation on Byron, Kierkegaard in fact reveals just how beholden his aesthetic authorship was to …
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Ironic Multiplicity: Fernando's "Pessoas" Suspended in Kierkegaardian Irony
… applies Søren Kierkegaard's understanding of irony as outlined in his master's thesis, The Concept of Irony, to the literary works of Fernando Pessoa. Recently Kierkegaardian scholarship has opened possibilities for non-traditional interpretation of Kierkegaard's dissertation and pseudonymous …
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
This thesis presents a theory of structural irony gleaned from the irony theorised and performed in the texts of thinkers whose works operate on the border of the (non)propositional: Plato, Friedrich Schlegel, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. While focusing on …
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The novels of Charles Brockden Brown: irony and illusion
<p>This study grows out of the assumption that Brown's fiction would reward examination on its merits alone; therefore, the techniques out of which Brown's complex view of man evolves receive attention over and above thematic concerns. The organization is not chronological so there is no effort at …
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Hardy's Irony With Particular Reference to the Short Stories
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Charles Dickens' Trope of Great Gulfs: Irony in Bleak House
In Bleak House, Charles Dickens artistically and ironically manipulates language to expose burgeoning socio-political gaps in Victorian times, most notably those that involve people who have access to money, power, food and salvation, and people who do not. Dickens refers to the unlikelihood of two …
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Edith Wharton's irony : from the short stories to the infinitudes
… of rhetorical strategy. She employs verbal irony and situational irony. She also focuses closely on the ironies in American society, particularly those associated with the upper class, with marriage, and with art. But Wharton's conscious and pervasive use of irony in the stories points to …
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A Scenario-Based Approach to Irony. Structure, meaning and function
Esta tesis doctoral es el primer estudio integrado sobre ironía que recoge aspectos tratados anteriormente en disciplinas como la teoría literaria, la retórica, la psicolingüística, la lingüística y la filosofía del lenguaje. Basa la integración en la consideración de la ironía como el resultado de …
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Poetic irony in Thomas Hardy's Satires of Circumstance.
To explore Thomas Hardy's poetic irony, this study uses Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan's poetics approach to narrative as a format for analyzing Hardy's Satires of Circumstances: Lyrics and Reveries, the volume chronologically and critically at the center of his poetical writing. Embedded in the book are …
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Deep learning for prosody-based irony classification in spontaneous speech
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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