Irony and the war. How ironic utterances used in social media discourse related to the war in Ukraine counter disinformation
Irony and the war. How ironic utterances used in social media discourse related to the war in Ukraine counter disinformation
Author(s): Andreea Nicoleta SoareSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Political psychology, Politics and communication, Politics and society, Methodology and research technology, Geopolitics
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Irony; discourse; social media; twitter; war; Ukraine; Russia; Putin;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the types of irony used on social media, specifically X (former Twitter), regarding the war in Ukraine. Starting from the approach of irony from the Gricean perspective (Grice, 1989) and from Dynel’s types of irony (2013), we will take a closer look to a specific Twitter account, DarthPutin, which impersonates the Russian president, from a discourse perspective, by supposedly presenting his evaluation of the war in Ukraine. It is argued here that the type of irony used on this account is propositional negation irony and is used to both show the user’s stance to the Kremlin regime in relation to the war inUkraine and counter the false information spread on social media and Moscow’s propaganda regarding the war.
Journal: Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication
- Issue Year: 14/2023
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 85-94
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
