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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"sarcasm"”.
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Sarcasm in Paul's Letters
This dissertation investigates the use of sarcasm in the undisputed letters of Paul. A methodologically rigorous treatment of this subject can make an important contribution to Pauline studies, as determining whether a given passage is meant sincerely or sarcastically has a considerable impact on …
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Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A Corpus-assisted Study of the Metalanguage of Sarcasm and Irony.
… show that mock politeness cannot be equated with sarcasm, and that the metapragmatic label which may be applied to a mock polite interaction depends on a range of contextual factors, including the participation role of the evaluator and gender of the performer. The range of metapragmatic labels …
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Online sarcasm and its perception by second language learners : the case of Iraqi EFL learners in Iraq and the UK
… very few have dealt with L2 irony and sarcasm. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how EFL learners recognize written British English sarcasm. For this purpose, an L2 pragmatics study was designed and applied to two groups of L2 learners of English. Another purpose of the …
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Analyzing Networks with Hypergraphs: Detection, Classification, and Prediction
… Network (HCN) model to be tailored for sarcasm detection across multiple low-resource languages. Our model excels in interpreting the subtle and context-dependent nature of sarcasm in short texts by exploiting the power of hypergraph structures to capture complex, high-order …
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Expressions of psychological stress on Twitter: detection and characterisation
… precision, recall, and f-measure. Swearing and sarcasm were also analysed in high-stress and no-stress datasets from the four domains using a Convolutional Neural Network and Multilayer Perceptron, respectively. The presence of swearing and sarcasm was higher in the high-stress tweets compared …
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Geometry of compositionality
… in natural language processing: idiomaticity, sarcasm and metaphor detection. Extensive experiments have shown that this embedding-based method achieves good performance in multiple languages.
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Investigating The Necessary Components of a Sarcastic Context
… in each case the items rated as highest in sarcasm were often at the lowest levels on the putative “necessary” characteristic. The ratings were then used to develop an online reading task to investigate the effect of negative tension on the processing of sarcastic and literal statements. …
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Cultural translation problems with special reference to English/Arabic advertisements
… taboos (e.g. sexual connotations), conceptual sarcasm and cultural intertextuality, which are aimed at particular audiences, and the translation of which is determined by the elements of time and space. Localisation, according to the characters of the local market is thus the best solution for …
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The role of approximate negators in modeling the automatic detection of negation in tweets
… new types of negation), and the investigation of sarcasm, formal language, and exaggeration as themes that emerged from observations during corpus annotation.</p>
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Everything is awful : snark as ritualized social practice in online discourse
… to the similarly maligned practices of irony and sarcasm, snark is more unwieldy and less refined. To accuse others of snark is to question their intentions, their sincerity, even the validity of their claims. Snark is often seen as destructive. Per the subtitle of critic David Denby's book on the …
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A study of influences and experiences contributing to the attitudes of a group of vocational students towards science
… to get help when they needed it; the use of sarcasm or derogatory remarks to discourage questions; boring lessons mostly composed of copying notes from the board or textbooks; lack of relevance and a lack of enthusiasm displayed by the teacher. This led to a situation where participants …
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Irony in De Civitate Dei
… irony; |1. Irony as Contrast |2. Irony as Veiled Sarcasm |3. Irony as Sarcastic Laudation |4. Socratio Irony |The Latin ironic passages corresponding with the English translations are included in this thesis. The Dombart-Kalb, and the Welldon editions of the "De Civitate Dei" have been used, Where …
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Prosody in Human Communication and Machine Understanding
… are considered prosodically significant, such as sarcasm detection. However, computational systems do not benefit from the same social and conversational context that humans have in processing this kind of communication, making such tasks more challenging and further motivating the careful study …
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Clinical Assessment of Pragmatics (CAPs): A Validation Study
… order pragmatics such as perceiving irony, sarcasm, and expressing sorrow or support. Furthermore, the HFA group was distinguished by profound deficits in students’ ability to recognize and appropriately use facial expressions. CAPs is a tool which is both valid and reliable and can be used …
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John Boyle, Greg Curnoe and Joyce Wieland: Erotic Art and English Canadian Nationalism
… consistently revels in irony, negativity, sarcasm and parody, treating abstraction, politics, and pornography on exchangeable footing and frequently mocks or derides the sociological value of art while simultaneously positing itself as a nationalist art. For these three artists, nationalism …
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Die referensialiteit van literêre taalgebruik, meer spesifiek die implikasieverskynsels en die rol daarvan vir die interpretasie en evaluering van 'n literêre teks
… to hyperbole, understatement (litotes), satire, sarcasm and parody is investigated. At the end of this chapter the connection between irony and metaphor is carried through. The last chapter, i.e. chapter seven, points to the literary evaluative qualities of the implication references. As a whole …
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Speech acts and their rhetorical purposes in the Namibian parliamentary discourse, 2015-2016
… code-switching, address and titles, parallelism, sarcasm euphemism, antithesis, buzzwords and exordium were employed by MPs in attempt to define situations, give recognition, produce good sounding words, create humour, create benevolence, give effect of balance, gain trust, and praise, …
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Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence
… other ‘voices’ in Maria’s letters – namely sarcasm and seriousness – which are described as interrelated communicative styles dependent upon an anxious awareness of the gap between expression and meaning. The sum of these analyses not only proves historical pragmatics to be a productive …
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Enriching Word Representation Learning for Affect Detection and Affect-Aware Recommendations
… sentiment analysis, emotion classification and sarcasm detection have been popular in recent years due to a broad range of relevant applications in various domains. Traditionally, recommendations deal with applications having only two types of entities, users and items, and do not put them into …
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