{"id":4958,"date":"2017-12-14T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/irony-deficiency\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:18:57","slug":"irony-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/irony-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Some suffer from an <em>iron<\/em> deficiency; the cure is straightforward. Others from an <em>irony<\/em> deficiency; I know of no cure.&#0160; I wrote the other day:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Long-time reader E. C. sends us to rapper Joyner Lucas,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=43gm3CJePn0\">I&#39;m Not Racist<\/a>. It warms my heart this holiday season to see how wonderfully race relations have improved since the &#39;60s in this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The second sentence displays irony.&#0160; The meaning I intend, and succeed in conveying to those not suffering from irony deficiency,&#0160; is the opposite of what the sentence itself expresses when considered in itself, apart from context, simply as a sentence of English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Irony thus exploits the fact that speaker&#39;s meaning and sentence meaning can come apart. What a speaker or writer of a sentence means by the utterance or inscription of a sentence sometimes differs from what the sentence itself means considered apart from a context of use.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some suffer from an iron deficiency; the cure is straightforward. Others from an irony deficiency; I know of no cure.&#0160; I wrote the other day: Long-time reader E. C. sends us to rapper Joyner Lucas,&#0160;I&#39;m Not Racist. It warms my heart this holiday season to see how wonderfully race relations have improved since the &#39;60s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/irony-deficiency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irony Deficiency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}