SARCASM AS A BREACH OF LINGUISTIC POLITENESS: SOME THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS

The current paper is devoted to the analysis of sarcasm as a breach principles politeness. aim elicit peculiarities an exception Politeness Principle suggested by G. Leech (2014) and its conversational function incorporated into Irony mock demonstrates that apparently exploitation in case sarcastic utterances illocutionary goal opposes social thus providing model illustrates explanation polite appearing impolite arguing interpretations such are unsustainable. To support theory certain examples analyzed retrieved from American Depression-era author John Dos Passos’s novel “1919”. As matter fact, debate around question whether apparent implicature or it category impoliteness