The Serious Scale of Sarcasm: More Balanced Than a Drunken High-Heeled Clown on a Tight Rope
Craig Rozniecki$15.80(USD)
Ever been on a date where your date pretended to figure skate on the carpet for two hours? Has a friend, date, or loved one ever confessed their love of mannequins to you? Want to know what the top ten post-presidential jobs are for George W. Bush? Ever wonder how Valentine's Day came to be, fictionally speaking? Wonder no more. All these questions will be answered, experiences will be shared, and then some, in The Serious Scale of Sarcasm: More Balanced Than a Drunken High-Heeled Clown on a Tight Rope. Craig Rozniecki, author of Seasons Come, People Grow: A Poetic Journey, goes a very different route in his second book, as he goes from vague, open to interpretation poetry to very blunt and in your face humor and analysis. Rozniecki makes fun of anything from commercials to politicians to celebrities to the Internet(s). All this is talked about and so much more in Rozniecki's second book, The Serious Scale of Sarcasm: More Balanced Than a Drunken High-Heeled Clown on a Tight Rope.
Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language
John Haiman$60.00(USD)
Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old "talk is cheap" maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to realize that people don't necessarily mean what they say. Phrases such as "Yeah, right" and "I could care less" are so much a part of the way we speak--and the way we live--that we are more likely to notice when they are absent (for example, Forrest Gump). From our everyday dialogues and conversations ("Thanks a lot!") to the screenplays of our popular films (Pulp Fiction), what is said is frequently very different from what is meant.
Talk is Cheap begins with this telling observation and proceeds to argue that such "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. Author John Haiman traces this sea-change in our use of language to the emergence of a postmodern "divided self" who is hyper-conscious that what he or she is saying has been said before; "cheap talk" thus allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable. Haiman goes on to examine the full range of these pervasive distancing mechanisms, from cliches and quotation marks to camp and parody. Also, and importantly, Haiman highlights several ways in which language is evolving (and has evolved) from non-linguistic behavior. In other words, this study shows us how what we are saying is continually separating itself from how we say it.
As provocative as it is timely, the book will be fascinating reading for students of linguistics, literature, communication, anthropology, philosophy, and popular culture.
Concession
$21.99(USD)
"Thrash by the turning of the riffs and the fast tempos that would not have disavowed SEPULTURA (Period "Beneath The Remains") or even DARK ANGEL, hardcore by the attitude (As MARAUDER)", "A real stroke to the metal scene !"... This is what medias are saying about the French band SARCASM (From Toulouse). After more than seventy gigs as support act of GRIP INC. or RATOS DE PORAO, the band delivers a highly corrosive heavy-metal, without any compromising stuff !
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Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language
John Haiman$47.25(USD)
Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old 'talk is cheap' maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to realize that people don't necessarily mean what they say. Phrases such as 'Yeah, right' and 'I could care less' are so much a part of the way we speak - and the way we live - that we are more likely to notice when they are absent (for example, Forrest Gump). From our everyday dialogues and conversations ('Thanks a lot!') to the screenplays of our popular films (Pulp Fiction), what is said is frequently very different from what is meant. Talk is Cheap begins with this telling observation and proceeds to argue that such 'unplain speaking' is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. Author John Haiman traces this sea-change in our use of language to the emergence of a postmodern 'divided self' who is hyper-conscious that what he or she is saying has been said before; 'cheap talk' thus allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable. Haiman goes on to examine the full range of these pervasive distancing mechanisms, from cliches and quotation marks to camp and parody. Also, and importantly, Haiman highlights several ways in which language is evolving (and has evolved) from non-linguistic behaviour. In other words, this study shows us how what we are saying is continually separating itself from how we say it. As provocative as it is timely, the book will be fascinating reading for students of linguistics, literature, communication, anthropology, philosophy, and popular culture.
National Sarcasm Society , 9x12
$8.99(USD)
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The Uses and Processing of Irony and Sarcasm: A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbol (Metaphor and Symbol)
$37.50(USD)
The five papers in this special issue, and the commentary on them by Roger Kreuz, are at the cutting edge of research on irony and sarcasm. The papers examine irony and sarcasm in experimental and in natural settings; with fully functioning adults and with children or people with brain damage, cases where irony is only partially implemented; and employ a wide range of methodologies. These papers demonstrate not only the scope and richness of current thinking on irony and sarcasm, but also how central the understanding of these phenomena are to our understanding of language and thought in general.
