International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


irony

Ironical edification

The paper deals with ironic edification – autosemantic utterances which contain critical evaluation of human shortcomings expressed in derisive assertion of absurd, or pretentious, or malicious behavior certain people manifest. They make a specific class of proverbs, aphorisms, and miniatures of modern network discourse. They are heterogeneous and vary from profound observations of human character up to banalities used to amuse a down-home partner, from witty phrases up to acid black humour.

Is irony a speech genre? (once again, about some features of irony)

In the article the author examines the different points of view on a popular question of current theory of speech genres: whether irony is a speech genre.

Poetic reflection in a comic miniature

The article deals with comic short poems of various types. It is found that these miniatures in their genre borders selectively express varieties of comical attitude to reality: authorial texts comprise the all comic types (humour, irony, satire) whereas folklore texts express humour and mockery. Main means of comical effect in poetic miniatures are described including style incongruences between the beginning and end of a poem, language play with sound form coincidences, nonce words and allusions.

Intensifiers and deintensification in ironic contexts

The article discusses the role of intensifiers and deintensification (the minimised degree sign) in ironic contexts. Pre-analyzes the characteristics of both groups of words, identify their co-occurrence differences, the productivity and dopolnyaet intensifiers and unproductive of deintensification.

Genre individuality of steb in internet communication

The research is devoted to the consideration of mockery as a contemporary communicative phenomenon. The article describes trends of the modification in the genre mass media field, a characterization of some sociocultural background and preconditions of mockery’s origin is discussed, two variants of mockery – intellectual and marginal – are distinguished. Mockery as a sociocultural phenomenon appears as a result of carnivalization, critical evaluation and parody, which are based on the means of the comic – irony, satire, sarcasm.