sarcasm Betydning & definition

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.