On Satire and Parody: The Importance of Being Ironic

Kreuz, Roger J.; Roberts, Richard M.

doi:10.1207/s15327868ms0802_2

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“…According to Kreuz and Roberts (1993), four types of irony can be distinguished: (1) Socratic irony and (2) dramatic irony, both explained as a tension between what the hearer knows and what the speaker pretends to know (with the latter entailing a performance aspect), (3) irony of fate, which involves an incongruency between two situations, and (4) verbal irony, which implies a speaker who intentionally says the opposite of what he believes. However, theorists traditionally distinguish between situational and verbal irony.…”

Section: Irony Researchmentioning

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Exploring the fine-grained analysis and automatic detection of irony on Twitter

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2018

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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To push the state of the art in text mining applications, research in natural language processing has increasingly been investigating automatic irony detection, but manually annotated irony corpora are scarce. We present the construction of a manually annotated irony corpus based on a fine-grained annotation scheme that allows for identification of different types of irony. We conduct a series of binary classification experiments for automatic irony recognition using a support vector machine (SVM) that exploits a varied feature set and compare this method to a deep learning approach that is based on an LSTM network and (pre-trained) word embeddings. Evaluation on a held-out corpus shows that the SVM model outperforms the neural network approach and benefits from combining lexical, semantic and syntactic information sources. A qualitative analysis of the classification output reveals that the classifier performance may be further enhanced by integrating implicit sentiment information and context-and user-based features.

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Section: Irony Researchmentioning

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“…However, theorists traditionally distinguish between situational and verbal irony. Situational irony would include dramatic irony and irony of fate as described by Kreuz and Roberts (1993) and refers to situations that fail to meet some expectations (Shelley 2001) (see example 3).…”

Section: Irony Researchmentioning

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Exploring the fine-grained analysis and automatic detection of irony on Twitter

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2018

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“…Th ough irony is unique among other modes of non-verbal communication in that it has its own, distinct tone of voice (Kreuz & Roberts, 1993), its role in creating non-literal, ironic meaning is contested. Ackerman (1982) and Winner and Leekam (1991) claim that voice intonation is a neither necessary nor useful cue for irony and sarcasm comprehension.…”

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Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children

Zajączkowska

2016

Psychology of Language and Communication

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GTh e main aim of the presented study was to investigate the infl uence of voice intonation on the comprehension of ironic utt erances in 4-to 6-year-old Polish-speaking children. 83 preschool children were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (Banasik & Bokus, 2012). In the Irony Comprehension Task, children are presented with stories in which ironic utt erances were prerecorded and read by professional speakers using an ironic intonation. Half of the subjects performed the regular Irony Comprehension Task while the other half were given a modifi ed version of the Irony Comprehension Task (ironic content was utt ered using a non-ironic intonation). Results indicate that children from the ironic intonation group scored higher on the Irony Comprehension Task than children who heard ironic statements utt ered using a neutral voice. Ironic voice intonation appeared to be a helpful cue to irony comprehension.

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“…Kreuz and Roberts reference Beckson and Gantz in their definition of satire as "the ridicule of a subject to point out its faults" ( [30], p. 100). Likewise, they reference Holman and Harmon in their definition of parody: " .…”

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“After Ever After”: Social Commentary through a Satiric Disney Parody for the Digital Age

Schroeder

2016

Humanities

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"If you've ever wondered why Disney tales all end in lies," then ask YouTube artist Paint-aka Jon Cozart. He has created a video for YouTube.com that re-imagines what happened after four of Disney's leading ladies' "dreams came true." Continuing a tradition that is as old as the tales he sings about, the artist combines characters and melodies that have become culturally ubiquitous since the media domination of the Disney Corporation with an interpretation of the material that tries to make sense of the world in which it exists. Continuing the criticisms of post-modernism and feminist theory, Cozart challenges the "happily ever afters" that have become the stock endings for the genre. Through comedic satire he creates parodied storylines that bring four animated princesses out of their Disney realms and into the real world where they must deal with environmental destruction, racism, and colonialism, among other issues. The use of a video-sharing site such as Youtube.com not only allows for the expanded distribution of fan-created material, but it also directly addresses a wider audience than traditional oral story tellers could possibly reach: the Internet. This case study looks at the ways in which the global recognition of Disney culture allows for the creation of social commentary through familiar and beloved characters, while an increasingly digitally-connected world impacts the capabilities and understanding of both the creator and the viewers of the material. While far from being a new phenomenon, the reinterpretation of fairy tales takes on content and a form that reflects the increasingly globalized and digitized world in Cozart's Disney parody.

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On Satire and Parody: The Importance of Being Ironic

Cited by 88 publications

References 17 publications

Exploring the fine-grained analysis and automatic detection of irony on Twitter

Exploring the fine-grained analysis and automatic detection of irony on Twitter

Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children

“After Ever After”: Social Commentary through a Satiric Disney Parody for the Digital Age

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