IRONY AS A MULTIPURPOSE STYLISTIC DEVICE

The article discusses new approaches to the understanding of the idea of irony from the perspectives of lingua-pragmatics and cognitive linguistics. An examination of recent scientific literature reveals numerous potential options for resolving this problem. The distinction between irony and humor, sarcasm, mockery, and lies; defining the boundaries of irony in the text; the allocation of linguistic means of its construction and roles in various forms of discourse are among the key issues that scholars encounter in identifying the definition.

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