Irony results from a series of cognitive operations working together,which is a dynamic linguistic phenomenon created jointly by the speaker and the listener.The speaker's motivation of using irony aims at enabling the listener to indirctly infer the true meaning of...MORE Irony results from a series of cognitive operations working together,which is a dynamic linguistic phenomenon created jointly by the speaker and the listener.The speaker's motivation of using irony aims at enabling the listener to indirctly infer the true meaning of what the speaker says.As one of the core terms of western c...