Satirical news blends entertainment with information and opinion. Satire can thus impact various audience responses, such as positive negative affect, learning, persuasion. However, the presence size of these communicative effects have been debated. We conducted a three-level random-effects meta-analysis on satirical ( k = 70, N total 22,969). compared to two reference categories: (1) control m...

ONE OF the coloured engraved satires in the Wellcome collection is An Address of thanks from the Faculty to the Right Hon.ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to this country (Fig. 1). It was designed by Temple West, an amateur artist whose name appears on the cross-bar of the commode on which the figure of Influenzy is seated. The print was published by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly on 20 April 1...

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...

This study was conducted to uncover the aspects related satire in The Daily Show Twitter account. data of this research included 40 tweets selected during 2020 US presidential election. researcher used descriptive qualitative analyzing data. were collected by using recorder technique and documentary sheet as instrument collect purpose (1) find out types (2) describe realization satire, (3) expl...

Introduction to “Parody, Irony and Satire: Literary Approaches Rewriting Subverting Reality”

This paper presents computational work to detect satire/sarcasm in long commentaries on Italian politics. It uses the lexica extracted from the manual annotation based on Appraisal Theory, of some 30K word texts. The underlying hypothesis is that using this framework it is possible to precisely pinpoint ironic content through the deep semantic analysis of evaluative judgement and appreciation. ...

Satire has long been used as a tool in social commentary and political communication, some cases this extended to about science its role policy. This is certainly the case for recent Adam McKay film, ‘Don't look up’, where an allegorical story comet heading Earth satirise current media response climate catastrophe. While film succeeds making point, how humour interacts with objectives of commun...

ly speaking, it seems that conflict when applied to communicative action can be reduced to two main types: 1. Making a positive claim which is incompatible with someone else ́s actions or interest. 2. Denying another person ́s positive claim. The denial can take at least the following forms: (i) Explicit denial often combined with a counterclaim (ii) Implicit denial often by satire or irony