IRONY AS A MULTIPURPOSE STYLISTIC DEVICE

Аннотация

The article discusses new approaches to the understanding of the idea of irony from the perspectives of lingua- pragmatics and cognitive linguistics. An examination of recent scientific literature reveals numerous potential options for resolving this problem. The distinction between irony and humor, sarcasm, mockery, and lies; defining the boundaries of irony in the text; the allocation of linguistic means of its construction and roles in various forms of discourse are among the key issues that scholars encounter in identifying the definition. KEYWORDS Irony, comic techniques, speech, pragmatics, means of creating irony.