反语的幽默属性和语用功能_0.docVIP

反语的幽默属性和语用功能 [Abstract] Verbal irony, as a widely used figure of speech, has recEived considerable attention from cognitive psychologists and linguists. The traditional study of verbal irony from rhetorical and aesthetical approaches has been shifted to current cognitive and pragmatic investigation. In this paper, focus will be laid upon the humor feature of verbal irony from the perspective of pragmatics. First, through the comparison of different kinds of definitions of irony, a general idea about what is irony is established. Then, this paper examines the Cooperative Principle (CP fo