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Communicative Functions of Irony in English and Uzbek

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This article investigates the communicative functions of irony in English and Uzbek from a contrastive-pragmatic perspective. Irony is approached as a complex pragmatic phenomenon arising from the incongruity between the literal content of an utterance and the speaker’s intended communicative meaning, with contextual interpretation and implicit evaluation playing a central role. The study aims to identify the principal communicative functions of irony, describe their realization in English and Uzbek, and establish their shared and language-specific features. The research draws on contrastive, contextual, linguopragmatic, and semantic-pragmatic methods. Based on theoretical sources and constructed illustrative examples, the article examines the critical-evaluative, humorous, emotional-expressive, indirect-communicative, social-regulatory, and interpersonal-management functions of irony. The analysis suggests that irony is not limited to conveying a meaning opposite to the literal content of an utterance.

Source: International Journal of Literature and Language Studies

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23422665

Authors: Ismoiljonova Nilufarkhon Ergashali qizi, Worldly Knowledge Publishing Centre

Institutions: Namangan State University, Namangan Engineering Pedagogical Institute

Language: English

Topic: Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7222509997

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