SATIRE IN TURKISH DIVAN OF NÂBÎ

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Automatic Recognition of Satire in Web Content

Irony and satire can be useful weapons in any communicator’s rhetorical arsenal. They provide a nuanced means for expressing critical sentiments and for openly exploring divisive subjects. However, the very subtlety that grants these devices their utility also lends to their greatest drawback: implied meanings are often lost on their intended audience. In textual communication this difficulty i...

Satire for Dummies, Ver. 2.0

Yes, Minister: Satire in Information Systems Research

This paper explores the use of the alternative genre of satire in conjunction with conventional academic discourse in order to provide insight into information systems development and implementation in government. An outsourcing project for the development and implementation of a new payroll system for the New Zealand education sector provides the focus; this project was just one of a series of...

Subversive Satire: the Glasgow Verses

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...