Formalist classification of irony in children's stories

Document Type : Research Paper

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Children ̓s and Young Adults ̓ Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

10.29252/kavosh.2022.16834.3084

Abstract

No definition is possible for all the aspects of irony. From the perspective of this research, irony requires the presence of three people including the ironist, the victim, and the ironic observer. The ironist refers to a concept with his words or actions, knowingly or unknowingly with the intention of deception, but the victim takes the opposite. An ironic observer is someone, often a reader, who is aware of and laughs at the victim's misconception. In fact, irony is based on multiple meanings; that is, sentences are multifaceted, words have multiple meanings, and actions and situations have multiple inferences. Some components of an ironical meaning are in conflict with each other. This study categorizes ironies with a formalistic approach and in terms of the type of codes, the position of victims, intertextuality, the degree of transparency, and density in the text. The research method is descriptive-analytical, and its field of study is children's stories. In this regard, the present article seeks to answer how irony is formed in children's stories with a formative approach. The provided information is useful for humorists in the field of children. As far as the author knows, there is no similar research regarding the classification of ironies, either in domestic or foreign articles.

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