Ironic opinions on Polish Reddit: Description and computational methods of analysis
Journal: Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
Year: 2024

The paper analyses ironic comments as forms of expressing opinions posted by social media users, specifically on Polish Reddit. The study resorts to Gricean and neo-Gricean theories and typologies adapted to analyse the (syntactically) imperfect, spontaneous and colloquial discourse used online on social media. In this analysis, various corpus and computational tools are deployed to scrutinise types of irony, topics, and functions. The results have clearly shown that the most frequent type of ir