Correlation between Emotions, Irony and Extreme Events (by the Material of Comments on the Kerch Strait Incident)
Journal: Philology Theory & Practice
Year: 2020

The article considers irony as a speech act device of emotional influence in modern publicistic texts. The work aims to determine the place and function of this linguistic phenomenon in the semantic structure of analytical comments on extreme events. The study is novel in that it formulates the principal features of the author’s device used with the purpose of eliciting particular emotions from the readers and leaving an imprint on their perception of extreme events, which have undoubtedly drawn