Csika
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- Jul 9, 2010
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- Hungarian
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- Hungary
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- Hungary
Dear Friends,
I know that this will be rather technical and academic but I do believe that there are also academic-minded people here.
I am reading a paper about irony and the author makes a distinction between irony and literal speech. In his example, a couple are watching an awful painting and the wife says:
1. What a beautiful painting. (irony)
2. What an awful painting. (literal speech)
Since in literal understanding we make inferences about the world, in ironic understanding we make inferences about what the speaker (in this case the wife) thinks about the world.
On this basis the author calls literal understanding first-order reasoning, and irony he calls second-order reasoning.
My question is in what (dictionary) sense the author may use "order" here?
Thank you very much.
Csika
I know that this will be rather technical and academic but I do believe that there are also academic-minded people here.
I am reading a paper about irony and the author makes a distinction between irony and literal speech. In his example, a couple are watching an awful painting and the wife says:
1. What a beautiful painting. (irony)
2. What an awful painting. (literal speech)
Since in literal understanding we make inferences about the world, in ironic understanding we make inferences about what the speaker (in this case the wife) thinks about the world.
On this basis the author calls literal understanding first-order reasoning, and irony he calls second-order reasoning.
My question is in what (dictionary) sense the author may use "order" here?
Thank you very much.
Csika