The Study Of Ironical Discourse

WangShuo is a writer with an unique personality in the new era ofChinese literary, he has brought a severe impact on literary because hisnovels’ language is ironical, rebellious and willful.He has a great abilityto control the language of his novels and use the words arbitrarily topresent a story. Irony has become his individual style because a lot use ofirony in his novels. This article will take irony as the research object toanalysis how the author use the irony to achieve the effect of humor andagainst tradition and authority.The first part, firstly, the history of irony theory and modern ironytheory is interpreted from the perspective of linguistic performance, thenthis article analysis the novels’ linguistic features and the present situation of WangShuo novels’ irony. The second part focus on theclassification of the irony discourse from the verbal irony and situationalirony. The third part we will analysis the irony construction of the ironyconstruction from the perspective of pragmatics. The last part, thecontextual cues of WangShuo novels’ irony discourse based on theRelevance theory is interpreted.The last part is concluding, summarizingthe main content of this article, and affirming WangShuo’s contribution tothe ironical discourse, pointing out the ills of WangShuo novel’s languageat the same time.