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Drwiący i ironiści
The Derisive and the Ironists

Author(s): Wojciech Ziółkowski
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Instytut Nauk o Kulturze i Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych - Wydział Filologiczny - Uniwersytet Śląski
Keywords: irony; anthropology of laugh; subject; sarcasm;

Summary/Abstract: There are many reasons, which can call of the smile, but only two of them are main categories - first one will be a smile, which follow out bodily contentment and the second will be smile make of irony. On the one hand, the smile can be call out contented desires. In this way the smile is found behind discourse and it has got animal form. This essay will be consider about relativity impulses on the far side of end, which make of laugh. The Author especially put pressure on the line, when the joy become the mechanism of irony and derision. He thinks, that derision is a well known subtype came from classic irony. Of course, behind irony exist others concepts, such as lie, betrayal, Aesop's language and derision. The Essay was searching the answer - How notions as irony and derision locate in front of social mechanism, inclusion and exclusion, inclusion in and exclusion out the society. In this project author is trying to prove, that derision is a linguistic mechanism, which is connected with all systems well known as totalitarian, and irony characterize all systems in the face of democratic, but liberally minded. Derision and Irony are often connect with self. The Ironic utterance mustn't contain elements of derision. On the other side, derision always meet with irony. In fact "the real derision" always contain negative element, which is destructive for her subject and which is transfer by the irony. The Irony speech attribute negative weight of sarcasm, which charge the derision. The Most important fact says, that derision is always mete out of someone or something. This is like an element which cannot be subordinate of values, which are present by "we". The Irony save the distance in her subject. The Author thinks, that irony is much more just, neutral, face feelings, than derision. The Irony does not want to make a paradoxical reaction than laugh. On the contrary, derision take side with the "society", rules, hierarchy and system. Then again, irony take side with scurrility. Irony agrees to the world without rules. Author has convinced, that's effect of apathetical alienation. Derision release society, who we have to do without them. Even more, if we mock at intolerance, we will take side with them. The Last conclusion makes an appeal, that we should use hospitable irony and we should share with her effect, called burly laugh.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 12-13
  • Page Range: 14-25
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish