Garrod & Pickering (2004) maintain that conversation is easy because automatic alignment at various levels occurs during conversation. Other related theories of alignment have also been proposed for emotional/mood coordination (Hatfield, Cacioppo, & Rapson, 1994). Many studies have evaluated alignment effects at various linguistic levels, but have not yet integrated pragmatic levels in these de...

Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British historian, fiction writer, and, so to say, management guru, in Parkinson’s Law created his own successful way of critiquing organizational bureaucratization. work falls under the Burkean category “literature for use,” which affectivity becomes guaranteed by peculiarity irony. As Wayne C. Booth suggested, even case “stable irony” there may often be some possibi...

Automatic Irony Detection refers to making computer understand the real intentions of human behind the ironic language. Much work has been done using classic machine learning techniques applied on various features. In contrast to sophisticated feature engineering, this paper investigates how the deep learning can be applied to the intended task with the help of word embedding. Three different d...

Situational irony concerns what it is about a situation that causes people to describe it as ironic. Although situational irony is as complex and commonplace as verbal and literary irony, it has received nowhere near the same attention from cognitive scientists and other scholars. This paper presents the bicoherence theory of situational irony, based on the theory of conceptual coherence (Kunda...

Early practitioners of the novel in India could not count on a publishing industry, nor any vast readership, and only hope to be published overseas. However, writing for an international readership required some compromise between Indian forms beliefs one hand, publishers’ expectations other. This dilemma asserted itself primarily with language: what kind English, if at all, should novelist emp...

Resources for an authentic response to the ‘post-ecologist condition’ as described by Ingolfur Blühdorn can be found in a cultural modernism which emphasises the contradictory nature of the human condition and whose master trope is irony. The concept of irony can help us both diagnose and respond to the crisis in public meaning which helps sustain unsustainable behaviour. Forms of dispositional...

This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, includi...

The main goal of the present study was to characterise the pragmatic abilities of French children with cerebral palsy through their understanding of irony and other people's mental states. We predicted that children with cerebral palsy would have difficulty understanding false-belief and ironic remarks, due to the executive dysfunction that accompanies the motor disorders of cerebral palsy. We ...