Using the autoethnographic case study method, this article examines how my positionality as a foreign-born faculty member intersects with institutional rhetoric of diversity and inclusion present in many predominantly White institutions. My vignettes show that faculty, although contributing to representation numbers, are positioned knowledge providers discussions about ‘global’, ‘cultural’ some...

linguistically, deviation is one of the words’ resurrection aspects that breaks the surface structure of words, not their deep structure, and makes the audience to experience a literary pleasure. this study is a descriptive analysis of deviated ironies in ibn-e-farez and mowlavi’s divans. in addition to artistic and aesthetic aspects, as the study shows, ironies have been used in the works of t...

In ironic texts what is literally said is usually negated, and in absence of an explicit negation marker. This makes social computing quite challenging. Detecting irony is very much important for NLP tasks such as polarity classification, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, or reputation analysis. There is a growing interest from the research community in investigating the impact of irony on po...