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Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt."〔Oxford English Dictionary〕 Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although sarcasm is not necessarily ironic. "The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflections".〔http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony?s=t | The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflection, whereas satire and irony arising originally as literary and rhetorical forms, are exhibited in the organization or structuring of either language or literary material.〕 The sarcastic content of a statement will be dependent upon the context in which it appears. == Origin of the term == The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός (''sarkasmos'') which is taken from σαρκάζειν meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer".〔 It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to ''The Shepheardes Calender'' by Edmund Spenser: However, the word ''sarcastic'', meaning "Characterized by or involving sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly cutting or caustic", doesn't appear until 1695.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarcasm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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