Vera Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1202793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vera Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vera |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6204-7686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shocking projections
Where irony goes
This paper looks at the phenomenon of “irony attrition,” when speakers start out using an expression or engaging in a genre of semiotic activity ironically, but become more earnest in their usage over time. It argues that irony attrition arises as a consequence of three things: (a) the complex viewpoint arrangement that underlies the ironic interpretive stance, (b) routinization or entrenchment, and (c) limitations on our ability to keep track of…
What we talk about when we talk about texts
The ideal of an “authoritative text” is no longer a taken-for-granted assumption among editorial and critical theorists of the literary text. Rather, texts are, and should be thought of as, composites of distributed activities of multiple social agents. This view has many virtues, but it quickly runs up against the deeply entrenched gestaltism of the “underlying work” stance, a perspective that invades some of the most commonplace ways of talking…
Viewpoint, misdirection, and sound design in film
An afterthought on let alone
An afterthought on let alone
What we talk about when we talk about texts
The ideal of an “authoritative text” is no longer a taken-for-granted assumption among editorial and critical theorists of the literary text. Rather, texts are, and should be thought of as, composites of distributed activities of multiple social agents. This view has many virtues, but it quickly runs up against the deeply entrenched gestaltism of the “underlying work” stance, a perspective that invades some of the most commonplace ways of talking…
Viewpoint, misdirection, and sound design in film
Where irony goes
This paper looks at the phenomenon of “irony attrition,” when speakers start out using an expression or engaging in a genre of semiotic activity ironically, but become more earnest in their usage over time. It argues that irony attrition arises as a consequence of three things: (a) the complex viewpoint arrangement that underlies the ironic interpretive stance, (b) routinization or entrenchment, and (c) limitations on our ability to keep track of…
Shocking projections
Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)