By Irony

Hi,My original sentence is this:"Rather than attempt to develop yet another 'omnipotent' theory of verbal irony, I will make generalizations about cognitive operations underlying the representation of most discourse irony."In my usage, 'omnipotent' has two senses:1....

Well, I am writing an essay and my original sentence is this:"Rather than attempt to develop yet another 'omnipotent' theory of verbal irony, I will make generalizations about cognitive operations underlying the representation of most discourse irony."In my usage,...

99.9% of the time it can't be used. It's much too confusing, even for this native speaker. I hardly ever use that word, and I'm not quite sure what I do mean when I say it! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony CJ

What seems to be referred to as "verbal irony" is not the irony I learned as a child, which I would call "situation irony." I vote for number four. I suppose if you look hard enough, you can find irony in all of them. (contrasts/opposites) The third one is an interesting...

The more I try to understand the meaning of irony, the more confused I get. If you in a black suit stand in front of a white wall, is it ironic? If a short girl walks in 4 inch high heels, is it ironic?If a black guy in a black suit gives a speech about black people, is it ironic.If a woman talks...

To me, "merely" here most naturally means "I don't claim anything else", not "I don't do anything more than claim it", so doesn't add to the doubt. Since we may reasonably assume that the statement claim is false, the question for me is whether the...

When you add "merely" to that, the skepticism mounts.The expression lends itself to two interpretations: (1) The claim is false. (2) I don't want to fight with you. I'm simply stating a fact.I don't know which interpretation would better serve (or preserve) the irony of the...

Consider the following dialogue:Person #1: "You're crazy!"Person #2: "I'm not crazy. I merely claim to be Napoleon come back from the grave."After doing a Google search for "I merely claim to be", I was surprised to find that the phrase is not nearly as...

Which of the following do you think is correct? (referring to different researchers and (their) different conceptions)1. The researchers labeled their conceptions as 'umbrella frameworks' which have the potential to explain all irony.2. The researchers labeled their conceptions as an...

Hi all, In the following sentence can Kihara's theory too be interpreted as a theory of verbal irony? Does the sentence suggest something like that? In reaction to Kihara's theory, the second part of the paper proposes a semantic approach to the representation of verbal irony. Thanks...