Irony and Sarcasm
A biography of two troublesome words.Isn't it ironic? Or is it? Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I?). He explains that verbal irony--irony as it… Celý popis ↓
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Irony and Sarcasm
A biography of two troublesome words.Isn't it ironic? Or is it? Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I?).
He explains that verbal irony--irony as it is traditionally understood--refers to statements that mean something different (frequently the opposite) of what is literally intended, and defines sarcasm as a type of verbal irony. Kreuz In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern literary criticism to emojis.Kreuz describes eight different ways that irony has been used through the centuries, proceeding from Socratic to dramatic to cosmic irony.
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