Isn’t It Ironic? Research Rewards And Teaching Taxes

The Risks and Rewards of Ironic Communication

This paper explores the risks and reward of ironic communication. We argue that irony can not be characterized simply as having positive or negative social impact, but can serve multiple communicative purposes, depending on the social context and aims of the conversational participants. Irony may either distance, or bond, speakers and listeners. Contrary to the standard view, understanding iron...

Applied research : the ironic and the specific

Research on teaching nursing: where is it?

Teaching the stereotoner; its problems and rewards.

Between October 1973 and June 1974, 12 blind nonveterans participated in an evaluation project on learning to read ink print with the Stereotoner audible-output reading aid . This project was sponsored by the Veterans Administration, in cooperation with the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development of the National Academy of Sciences, which provided the Sterotoners, and the American Ins...

Isn’t it Ironic? An Analysis on the Elaboration of Ironic Sentences with ERPs

Although frequent in our everyday conversations, irony is a complex pragmatic phenomenon involving specific linguistic, communicative and cognitive abilities in order to be fully understood. In this study we examined the pragmatic comprehension of ironical and non ironical language by analysing event-related potentials (ERPs) of irony decoding process. We asked 12 subjects to listen to 240 sent...