ирония, иронический дискурс, функции иронии, английская коммуникативная культура, стратегии вежливости, Philology. Linguistics, P1-1091

The article deals with irony as a discourse category in the English communicative culture. Optimization of interpersonal relations is singled out as the hyperstrategy of the English irony. It suggests that irony may be included into the range of politeness strategies.