Stylistics and Pragmatics of Artistic Ironic Discourse (English and French Languages)

The article is devoted to the display of stylistic peculiarities literary ironic discourse in modern English and French prose. empirical basis research built on corpus text fragments containing statements selected from works French. relevance study accounted for by insufficient interconnections between verbal components conceptual background irony — mental mechanism second-order empathy as well need confirm status a speech strategy encouragement, incentive, self-defense, censure, ridicule, discredit, self-justification, self-representation or self-abasement, which verbalized fiction literature, thanks involvement number devices semantic syntactic sense. It shown that addition linguistic means objectify structure an utterance deictic units reveal order logic organizing information at level empathy, fictional (both French) brightly colored with figurative expressive language, actualize through ambiguous, voluminous, image-forming semantics syntax. In course comparative analysis, it has also been found out French-language higher density more than English-language one.