IRONY IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN AND BRITISH MEDIA DISCOURSES – A SOCIO-CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC APPROACH
IRONY IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN AND BRITISH MEDIA DISCOURSES – A SOCIO-CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: It goes without saying that the social and the cultural context, the beliefs, the mentalities and the lifestyles of people influence the selection of the means of expression, of the content, of the discursive practices and the transformations and mutations at linguistic level, as well. The paper focuses on several instances of media discourses, both Romanian and British, and aims to point out, in a comparative and intercultural manner, the way in which the critical or mocking attitudes are expressed indirectly. The selected topic is the world-wide debated issue of Brexit. The paper approaches the phenomenon of irony comprising pragmatic theories such as: irony as substitutive conversational implicature, irony as echoic mentioning, irony as pretence, and irony as simulation of the illocutionary force of speech acts.

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