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......are not concerned with irony as just a verbal strategy, a figure of speech, an indirect or ambiguous...language use, but with irony as an attitude towards...oft-cited example of irony as a figure of speech is the person who stands......

......established the ways in which the terms "irony" and "humor" will be used in...Kierkegaard's distinction between "irony as a figure of speech" marked by a disparity between...its essence or meaning, and "irony as a mode of existence" characterized......

......in a tone of rueful irony. By contrast, judicial...opinions about freedom of speech within government...and prisons without irony or even hesitation...opinions about freedom of speech compare schools and prisons without irony, and indeed without......

......tropes of simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and irony. My central claim is that these figures of speech are indispensible to religious and theological...in which simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and irony pile on top of each other to create a rhetorical......

......during a labor organizing campaign. The irony of a newspaper that advocates free speech terminating two employees for their...alleging violation of their right to free speech. The managers argued that free speech, protected under the Wyoming Constitution......

......to identify the category of speech entitled to less First Amendment...regulation: namely, commercial speech's potential to mislead...protection statute but also corporate speech that is clearly directed toward an issue of public concern. The irony presented by the case is self......

......to Mason's original work on Josephus's rhetoric of irony. Here Brighton demonstrates that in War Josephus counters...reading of Sicarii passages to be attentive to figured speech and irony as well. Another context Brighton examines is War......

......terminology and features of normal and disordered speech and language development and child psychopathology...behaviours. Also in adolescence the use of figurative speech, metaphor, irony, and sarcasm increases, and if adolescents cannot......

......communication, whether in the form of speech or the written word. When the...linguistic devices of metaphor and irony. Metaphors, which have appeared...made apparent. Like metaphor, irony also has a long history, having...2008). According to Pexman, irony is a nonliteral language that......

......reason, my use of the term prosaic irony rests on two important assumptions...meaning is impossible. Second, prosaic speech occurs in everyday life. The meanings...adequately. For these reasons, prosaic irony acts as a structuring principle because......

......are not concerned with irony as just a verbal strategy, a figure of speech, an indirect or ambiguous...language use, but with irony as an attitude towards...oft-cited example of irony as a figure of speech is the person who stands......

......established the ways in which the terms "irony" and "humor" will be used in...Kierkegaard's distinction between "irony as a figure of speech" marked by a disparity between...its essence or meaning, and "irony as a mode of existence" characterized......

......in a tone of rueful irony. By contrast, judicial...opinions about freedom of speech within government...and prisons without irony or even hesitation...opinions about freedom of speech compare schools and prisons without irony, and indeed without......

......tropes of simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and irony. My central claim is that these figures of speech are indispensible to religious and theological...in which simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and irony pile on top of each other to create a rhetorical......