2 résultats pour "irony"
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Show that chapter four of 'Things Fall Apart' is conceived in irony
up into groups of four hundred. Sometimes, the two boys were given yams to prepare, but Okonkwo was never satisfied with their efforts. He scolded and threatened them, especially Nwoye, whom Okonkwo thought was growing up into a lazy youth. Deep inside him Okonkwo knew that the boys were too young to be preparing yams, but he also believed that it was never too early to start. Yam, the king of crops, stood for manliness, and Oknonkwo wanted his son Nwoye to grow up to become a strong farme...
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A pragmatic approach to metaphorical irony
1.0 Introduction: Our research paper is concerned with metaphorical irony, which falls within the domain of Pragmatics. Pragmatics is concerned with the appropriate use of sentences as utterances in the process of linguistic communication (lecture notes). Therefore, we need to draw a distinction between the terms "sentence" and "utterance" before we provide a working definition of Pragmatics, which is our domain of study. This constitutes one part of our review of the relevant literature....