FORMS OF IRONY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL DISCOURSE
FORMS OF IRONY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The present paper approaches the issue of irony in Romanian contemporary social discourse, especially in political discourse, referring both to a pragmatics and a lexical perspective. The first part of the paper presents a brief review of the theory of polyphony related to forms of irony occurring in different types of social discourse. Then, several aspects of irony are presented in a pragmatic approach, considered as persuasion strategies used by the sender of the social discourse message. The conclusion that spoken language characteristics and tendencies are fully manifest both in social discourse, in general, and in irony strategies, in particular, is based on analyzing a set of representative examples.

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