海外英语（上）
海外英語（上）
해외영어（상）
Overseas English
2014年
1期
208-210,218
,共4页
irony%cooperative principle%politeness principle%irony principle%pragmatic functions
Irony is frequently used in our daily life. Traditionally, Irony is only considered as a figure of speech. Because of its im-portance and prevalence, irony has gotten a lot of attention over the last few years. In this paper, I concentrate on the pragmatic perspective of irony and try to find out the characteristics and functions of irony. In addition, the reasons of people choose to use irony in dairy life. At the beginning, I will introduce the basic definition and types of irony. Then I try to analyze the irony ac-cording to cooperative principles, politeness principle, irony principle, speech act theory of communication to explore the genera-tion and comprehension of irony. Moreover, I illustrate the pragmatic functions of irony with appropriate examples. Finally, the paper emphasizes the importance of irony and predicts future development of irony.
