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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"verbal irony"”.
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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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A pragmatic study on verbal irony in Spanish.
A pragmatic study on verbal irony in Spanish.
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Verbal Irony in the Short Fiction of Charles Nodier: A Computer-Assisted Study (France)
This dissertation examines the effects of verbal irony, from the point of view of reader-response and cognitive theory, on the interpretation of a literary text. The analytical techniques developed are then applied to the short stories of Charles Nodier. A careful comparison of significant recent …
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Investigating The Necessary Components of a Sarcastic Context
… components utilized to convey sarcastic verbal irony, testing whether theoretical components deemed as necessary for creating a sense of irony are, in fact, necessary. A novel task was employed: Given a set of statements that out-of-context were not rated as sarcastic, participants were …
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Edith Wharton's irony : from the short stories to the infinitudes
… as a master 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 …
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Still the Duchess: John Webster's use of rhetoric
… anticlimatic nature of Act V are pivotal to the irony operating in the play. The play reflects the age and its dissolution; therefore, the precise verbal irony must dissolve into gross action. Without the Duchess physically present to maintain justice in the world, only physical horrors remain. …
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The comprehension of figurative language : electrophysiological evidence on the processing of irony
… im Besonderen die zeitliche Verarbeitung von verbaler Ironie. In sechs Experimenten wurde mittels ereignis-korrelierter Potentiale (EKP) die Gehirnaktivität beim Verstehen ironischer Äußerungen im Vergleich zu entsprechenden nicht-ironischen Äußerungen gemessen und analysiert. Darüberhinaus …