irony in literature is an art that reflects the underlying pain and heals the hidden anguish that it wants to use to heal its grief and remove its anguish through its opposite. hence, the pain felt by the writer or the poet and his inability to remove the causes of this pain is the motivation behind this irony that the poet creates. however, the motivation to resort to this method varies from e...

Sarcasm and irony, although similar, differ in that sarcasm has an impact on sentiment (because it is used to ridicule a target) while irony does not. Past work treats the two interchangeably. In this paper, we wish to validate if sarcasm versus irony classification is indeed a challenging task. To this end, we use a dataset of quotes from English literature, and conduct experiments from two pe...

This paper explores the risks and reward of ironic communication. We argue that irony can not be characterized simply as having positive or negative social impact, but can serve multiple communicative purposes, depending on the social context and aims of the conversational participants. Irony may either distance, or bond, speakers and listeners. Contrary to the standard view, understanding iron...

Irony is perceived through a complex interaction between an utterance and its context and serves many social functions such as to be sarcastic and to be humorous. The purpose of this paper is to explore what role linguistic style and contextual information play in the recognition of irony (i.e., assessing the degree of irony) and in the appreciation of ironic functions (i.e., assessing the degr...

Situational irony concerns what it is about a situation that causes people to describe it as ironic. Although situational irony is as complex and commonplace as verbal and literary irony, it has received nowhere near the same attention from cognitive scientists and other scholars. This paper presents the bicoherence theory of situational irony, based on the theory of conceptual coherence (Kunda...

irony is a technique in figurative language which is very common in the works of mahdi akhavaan saales and can be considered as a prominent feature in his style. although irony is used as a common technique by many iranian writers, many critics have not studied it fully. the author of this article studies irony in the works of mahdi akhavaan saales.