The Role Of Irony In Creating A Linguistic Image Of The World

Abstract

Irony as a stylistic trope helps to make the artistic text meaningful, give it meaning and make the speech process interesting. The purpose of this research is the origin of irony, the scientists who founded it, their opinions, and some types of irony and usage of it in speech as well as in literal texts. Also, the interest in the conceptual apparatus and principles of irony is not only philosophical and logical, but also in the sciences that study the laws of human cognitive activity, including cognitivism, and its place in cognitive linguistics.