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Bengtsson, Stefan; Lysgaard, Jonas Andreasen – Environmental Education Research, 2023
This paper seeks to reclaim irony as more than a way of humorously pointing out that the times we live in are out of joint or coming to an end, instead emphasizing its potential as a productive force and method in both educational thinking and teaching practice. By interrogating the educative potential of irony as method and humorous experience in…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Humor, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
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Lu, Chia-Chen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
The incongruity-resolution model plays a key role in the cognitive mechanisms of perceived humour. This study employed the incongruity-resolution model to discuss humorous design techniques to help design novices and students understand the influence of various humorous design techniques on perceived humour. First, 260 humorous products currently…
Descriptors: Humor, Design, Cognitive Processes, Graduate Students
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Sahin, Ahmet – SAGE Open, 2021
This study investigated teachers' use of humor in school settings. Eleven lower secondary school teachers from different branches volunteered in this qualitative study. I collected data through individual, face-to-face interviews and used content and descriptive analysis methods for data analysis. In conclusion, the participants mostly said that…
Descriptors: Humor, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Shively, Rachel L.; Acevedo, Juan; Cano, Rocio; Etxeberria-Ortego, Izadi – Language Teaching Research, 2022
The present study examined the effect of a pedagogical intervention about humorous verbal irony in Spanish with a mixed group of 40 second language (L2) and heritage speakers of Spanish. Unlike previous studies that have considered only irony comprehension, this project incorporated both comprehension and production of irony into instruction and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers, Humor
Sato, Eriko – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It examines the traces of translanguaging in translated texts with special focus on the strategic use of scripts, morphemes, words, names, onomatopoeias, metaphors, puns and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Applied Linguistics, Translation, Literary Criticism