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...

The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly language...

Verbal irony is a common form of expression used in daily communication, where the intended meaning often opposite to literal meaning. Accurately recognizing verbal essential for any NLP application which understanding true user intentions key performing underlying tasks. While existing research has made progress this area, involves connotative knowledge that cannot be directly inferred from te...

leadership, as mcdonald (1)argues, is a phenomenon which many people involved in healthcare around the globe put great emphasis on today; some even see the improvement of leadership as a panacea for all the ills of their healthcare system. this brief commentary on her work seeks to supplement the points she makes by emphasising the personalattractions leadership enjoys, at least in the eyes of ...

We describe a data collection for vocal expression of ironic utterances and anger based on an Android app that was specifically developed for this study. The main aim of the investigation is to find evidence for a non-verbal expression of irony. A data set of 937 utterances was collected and labeled by six listeners for irony and anger. The automatically recognized textual content was labeled f...

The way we speak can reveal much about what we intend to communicate, but the words we use often only indirectly relate to the meanings we wish to convey. Verbal irony is a commonly studied form of indirect speech in which a speaker produces an explicit evaluative utterance that implicates an unstated, opposing evaluation. Producing and understanding ironic language, as well as many other types...