Author(s)

Ronggen Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai, China

Corresponding Author

Ronggen Zhang

ABSTRACT

Irony is a figure of speech, where the word irony is derived from Greek. Since irony is so pervasive in our daily communication and has a profound effect upon human thinking, it is worth studying carefully. Based on the two traditional criteria for defining irony, i.e. "to say the opposite of what one means "and" to say other than what one means", the paper analyses four categories of irony such as verbal irony, dramatic irony, extant irony, and artifacted irony. And the author finds that there are some problems in traditional view of irony. Then he suggests in the further study of irony he will incorporate some pragmatic principles to the two traditional criteria.

KEYWORDS

Irony; Verbal irony; Dramatic irony; Extant irony; Artifacted irony

CITE THIS PAPER

Ronggen Zhang, On Traditional Classifications of Irony. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 8-15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060302.

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