Search results for "irony"
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On the relation of irony, understatement, and litotes
2016
The aim of this paper is to clarify the distinctive and the shared features of the three phenomena: irony, understatement, and litotes. These rhetorical figures have been defined as synonymous, distinct or overlapping in various accounts. This indicates an interrelation but also a need for clearer definitions. Here, each of these rhetorical figures is defined via two jointly necessary conditions. This approach sharpens the categories, enables clear-cut distinctions and helps to explain cases of overlap. German corpus data and examples from the literature as a basis, allow differentiating between cases of understatement as a means of irony, and cases of litotes as a means of understatement. …
Irony as a Visual Argument
2016
Argumentation fields are extraordinarily varied. Depending on the area in which we move, our argumentative strategies should be appropriate for achieving the greatest success. The strength of a good argumentation must remain meaningfully in an argument developed in a logically valid way and rhetorically embellished, obtaining as a result a persuaded audience who consequently accept it.
Lost in Enthusiasm? An Elementary Qualitative Analysis of 44 Years of Research in Order to Show Why Even Today Educational Historiography is Not an U…
2021
The statement from this article that historical reflection remains essential in educational research will not be demonstrated by one or another theoretical reasoning, but by four illustrations taken from my 44-year-old research career in the history of education. Each one of these illustrations represents an important research line of my career. The first deals with the history of primary education (mainly in Belgium, but also elsewhere). It concentrates on the relationship between continuity and change within the educational practices, in general, and on the irony and immunisation of educational innovations, in particular. The second deals with the history of educational sciences from the …
Effectiveness of Data-Driven Induction of Semantic Spaces and Traditional Classifiers for Sarcasm Detection
2019
Irony and sarcasm are two complex linguistic phenomena that are widely used in everyday language and especially over the social media, but they represent two serious issues for automated text understanding. Many labeled corpora have been extracted from several sources to accomplish this task, and it seems that sarcasm is conveyed in different ways for different domains. Nonetheless, very little work has been done for comparing different methods among the available corpora. Furthermore, usually, each author collects and uses their own datasets to evaluate his own method. In this paper, we show that sarcasm detection can be tackled by applying classical machine learning algorithms to input te…
Caricature as a creative work for its creator and viewer / Karikatūra kaip kūrybinis darbas jo kūrėjui ir suvokėjui
2012
Nowadays we can witness a tendency where the visual replaces the verbal. Humour experiences the same: its visual expression – caricature – is a visual metaphor that already has taken its remarkable place in the field of humour. Caricatures have become a distorting mirror that show deformed but still fairly presented reality. Humour is important part of our everyday life's communication and it covers many spheres of people's life, even including marketing, politics, work relationships, etc. That is why caricatures became a remarkable tool, for example, in political contentions. This article will show what it takes to create this distorting mirror from one side and to see a reflection in it a…
Brancati su Pirandello e il pirandellismo
2019
Nel romanzo breve "Sogno di un valzer" uscito a puntate su “Quadrivio”, dal 5 giugno al 14 agosto 1938, Vitaliano Brancati mette in scena, tra osservazione dei luoghi e rilevamento di costume, un’umanità fuori misura, continuamente in bilico tra realtà e sogno. A Caltanissetta (Nissa) la città nel cui Istituto magistrale lo scrittore, voltate le spalle alla Roma fascista, è venuto a insegnare, personaggi non appariscenti, insignificanti, che tuttavia covano desideri, si arrovellano in domande metafisiche. Prende così forma il leitmotiv delle critica al pirandellismo che più volte con ironia sottile affiora negli scritti brancatiani. Il saggio mostra come esso si intrecci con la comicità sul…
Atrévete a ironizar: propuesta para la enseñanza de la prosodia y la kinesia de la ironía
2020
La ironía es un fenómeno complejo que puede suponer un verdadero reto para los aprendientes de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE). Sin embargo, los enunciados irónicos presentan marcas e indicadores que pueden facilitar al estudiante su aprendizaje. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una propuesta didáctica para enseñar las marcas prosódicas y kinésicas de la ironía, ante la falta de recursos que aborden estos rasgos. Para ello, nos basamos en los parámetros del método verbo-tonal y adoptamos un enfoque fonocognitivo, que abarca tanto la percepción como la producción de enunciados irónicos. Con la ayuda del programa informático PRAAT, de una metáfora visual y de diversos materiales au…
Schlegel y los enemigos de la ironía romántica
2007
Raga Rosaleny, Vicente - Vicente.Raga@uv.es La ironía de Schlegel, máximo representante, junto con Solger, de la ironía en el romanticismo alemán supuso una reinterpretación de la figura del Sócrates irónico de Platón. Sin embargo, su propuesta de una ironía pragmática fue rechazada de manera violenta por Hegel y Kierkegaard, que releyeron a Sócrates y su ironía enfrentándola a la de Schlegel. Para estos la propuesta del autor romántico era un reto a la sociedad que acabaría destruyéndola, pero, desde nuestra perspectiva tal lectura semántica de la ironía schlegeliana no se sostiene y, más bien, la propuesta del escritor alemán puede entenderse como un modo de crítica constructiva de la com…
Parody in art from the sixties to our times
2014
The word parody has been coined during classical antiquity and has since been considered mostly as a literary genre or figure. Nevertheless, numerous plastic artists are making use of its forms, processes and connotations. During the 1960s decade, the advent of consumerism and its effects on the work of art duplicability gave a new rise to parody. Reproducibility allowed the transformation of history of arts into a vast repertoire in which one may draw to create from and thus, offered a fertile ground for parodic creation. This study focuses on understanding why and how such a wide range of artists are taking advantage of parody for personal or contextual ends from the 1960s to nowadays. Th…
"Ironia i metadiscurs en el teatre català actual, a propòsit d'Elsa Schneider, de Sergi Belbel"
2014
This article has as its goal to analyze the dramatic text «Elsa Schneider» (1987), by Sergi Belbel, starting from the concept of irony of contrast between text and context of communication. This ironic resource is conveyed through the different composition of the three sequences of monologues in which the work is structured. With this resource the author offers an approach to a metadiscursive subject matter which revolves around scenic communication and theatrical genres.