Author’s irony in the process of communication (based on Byron’s poem “Don Juan”)

Abstract

The article is devoted to irony, its nature, ways of expressing, features, its role and meaning in the society. The goal of the article is to examine the examples of irony in G. Byron’s poem, to define the author’s ironical position, and the linguostylistic means of expressing irony, which were used, and to examine the communicative-pragmatic aspect of irony in the examples from “Don Juan”. In the article such terms as “cognitive aspect”, “ironic worldview”, “communicative” and “pragmatic” aspects, their features in ironic discourse are examined. The attention is also paid to the interpretation of irony as a difficult communicative task. Inner and outer contexts are examined, their features and role in irony interpretation as well as the category of “author” in a literary text re discussed. Research methods of distributive, component, differential, text analysis, induction and deduction were used. As a result, the author’s ironical position is defined, the objects of his irony, and the means of expressing them, their features, role and meaning in the society. Also, communicative-pragmatic aspect, ironic worldview, inner and outer contexts were examined, their features and role in understanding irony in the chosen work.