Theatrical Irony

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-151
Author(s):  
Eli Rozik
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Partial Overlap

It is my intention to derive the concept of ‘theatrical irony’ from the general theory of theatrical communication.The basic meaning of the term ‘irony’, from the Greek word ‘ειρωνεια’, was ‘dissimulation’. Over the centuries, this term has been extended to additional semantic fields and consequently acquired new meanings as in ‘Socratic irony’, ‘philosophical irony’, ‘romantic irony’, ‘dramatic irony’, ‘tragic irony’, and so on. At the same time, a number of more colloquial expressions were introduced as well, as in ‘ironic smile’, ‘irony of events’, ‘irony of fate’, and so on. I am of the opinion, however, that despite the diversity of such phrases and regardless of their partial overlap, it is still possible to unveil a common semantic core. Furthermore, it is my belief that our understanding of theatrical irony benefits from all these additional usages.

scholarly journals Analysis of Linguo-cultural Picture of LIE in Systemic Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Irena Snukiškienė
Keyword(s):  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
Cultural Image ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Semantic Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Purposeful Activity

The article presents Lithuanian linguistic cultural image of LIE (MELAS) reconstructed from lexicographic data. The analysis of the lexicographic definitions of this lexeme in Lithuanian dictionaries (The Dictionary of Lithuanian Language, The Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian, the dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms and Lithuanian etymological sources) provides two views of the concept: synchronic and diachronic. The diachronic view shows the semantic development of the word, the specification of its meaning (the loss of the primary and the acquisition of new meanings). The synchronic view shows the basic meaning of the concept and its profiles in contemporary language. The research revealed that the basic meaning is LIE as a subject’s purposeful distortion of reality with the purpose of deception. The dominating aspects are: a subject’s purposeful activity and an object that a subject wants to deceive. Lexicographic data distinguished several profiles of LIE: (1) LIE as entertainment (when lie is used for joking, visual storytelling and has no negative purpose), (2) LIE as unethical issue (when lying is seen as negative, sinister activity) and (3) LIE as psychologically necessary element of life (when lie is seen as useful, helping to get out of difficult situations). The analysis is concluded with the cognitive definition of lie, providing its linguo-cultural view in Lithuanian.

scholarly journals Euphemism as a Mechanism of the Internal Workings of the Politically Correct Language

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Reinaldo César Zanardi ◽  
Marcelo Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Individual Rights ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Internal Mechanism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Brazilian Journal

As a social phenomenon, the politically correct is very recent and operate in the perspective of defending the individual rights of marginalized segments. In this context, the object of this study refers to the politically correct language (PCL), which can be defined as the process of substitution of stigmatized variants for others that are considered positive or neutral. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present the euphemism as an internal mechanism of functioning of the PCL, justified by the need to reflect on prestige variants in three semantic fields: disability, blackness and homosexuality. The corpus covers online collection of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, an important Brazilian journal. As a result, euphemism in PCL: i) softens pejorative meanings, ii) inscribe new meanings in variants in use, iii) is also associated with technical variants in areas such as health and law, and finally iv) can also be exaggerated, contributing to other negative meanings.

Contextual Semantics in al-Ṭabrisī’s Tafsīr majmaʿ al-bayān

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-174
Author(s):  
Khalīl Khalaf Bashīr
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Fields ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Grammatical Structures

Context plays a major role in indicating the meaning of words and grammatical structures. This is especially true for terms to which the Qur'an designated new meanings. Furthermore, over the passing of time meanings change, for example from the general to the specific or vice versa. On this basis the author attempts to apply the theory of semantic fields to specific terms in al-Ṭabrisī’s Majmaʿ al-bayān. He then highlights the usefulness of this theory in composing in comprehensive dictionaries which include semantic fields as applied in other tafāsīr.

Extreme self-sacrifice beyond fusion: Moral expansiveness and the special case of allyship

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Crimston ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Relevant Dimension ◽  
Special Case

AbstractAs a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice, Whitehouse's article misses one relevant dimension: people's willingness to fight and die in support of entities not bound by biological markers or ancestral kinship (allyship). We discuss research on moral expansiveness, which highlights individuals’ capacity to self-sacrifice for targets that lie outside traditional in-group markers, including racial out-groups, animals, and the natural environment.

Adolescents’ self-mutilation - Relationship with dependent behaviour

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bolognini ◽  
B. Plancherel ◽  
J. Laget ◽  
P. Stéphan ◽  
O. Halfon
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Clinical Population ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Partial Overlap ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study, which was carried out in the French-speacking part of Switzerland, was to examine the relationship between suicide attempts and self-mutilation by adolescents and young adults. The population, aged 14-25 years (N = 308), included a clinical sample of dependent subjects (drug abuse and eating disorders) compared to a control sample. On the basis of the Mini Neuropsychiatric Interview ( Sheehan et al., 1998 ), DSM-IV criteria were used for the inclusion of the clinical population. The results concerning the occurrence of suicide attempts as well as on self-mutilation confirm most of the hypotheses postulated: suicidal attempts and self-mutilation were more common in the clinical group compared to the control group, and there was a correlation between suicide attempts and self-mutilation. However, there was only a partial overlap, attesting that suicide and self-harm might correspond to two different types of behaviour.

Review of A General Theory of Crime.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1225-1225
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
General Theory Of Crime ◽  
Theory Of Crime
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