Eksempler på sarcasm

• However, their implicit sarcasm maintains the threat of allencompassing alienation.

• Speech coded as devaluing is characterized by belittling, criticism, mocking sarcasm, or derogatory or condescending language.

• Talk is cheap: sarcasm, alienation, and the evolution of language.

• The book's darkness, fluttered momentarily by sarcasm, punctured in places by genuine humour or brilliant observation, is at once its triumph and a major problem.

• One suspects that all the clerks, related or not, feared the first secretary's lashing tongue : sarcasm and irony could be effective instruments of discipline.

• Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.

• How children understand sarcasm : the role of context and intonation.

• Differential effect of right- and left-hemisphere damage on understanding sarcasm and metaphor.

• Humor or sarcasm are sometimes used to reject other family members in high scoring families.

• People feel that it makes them vulnerable to sarcasm and irony.

• Unable to use such devices as 'sarcasm' and 'banter', she had to resort to other means to assert her authority.

• Irony, sarcasm, and humour are some of the attitudinal effects available through the creative use of idiomaticity.

• On the micro level, the teacher draws attention to contradictions, irony, humor, and sarcasm in search of charged linguistic expressions that are the product of deeply ingrained values.

• For example, if a compliment is uttered in a mocking tone, it loses its sincerity because the sarcasm overrides the form and literal content of the message.

• On the other hand, in the lessons with girls and working-class students, she finds more indirection, related to covert discipline strategies or to sarcasm as a control mechanism.