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\nDAVID M.HA LPERIN  \nFor Valerie Traub  \nI  \nIrony consists in meaning something other than what you say.It enables youto say one thing and imply the opposite.It indicates that what you said is notwhat you meant.Or it can simply warn your audience not to identify you tooclosely with the view you just expressed.Irony allows the speaker to disap-pear as a guarantor of authenticity,to become unfindable in the utterance,toescape responsibility for meaning.Irony evades the dichotomies of sincerityand falsehood,belief and unbelief,being for oneself and being for others.Itregisters a shifting and dynamic tension among different orders of meaning.  \nThat is the formal structure of irony.Irony has a form,then,but it is notitself a formal property of language.It has no fixed or unambiguous linguisticmarkers.It requires a community of understanding.“Ijust love this weather”bears no indexical sign that identifies it as an ironic utterance.Spoken byone sunbather to another on a tropical island,it may have nothing ironicabout it;spoken in the context of an ice storm,it is ironic only if speaker andaudience participate in a shared experience of meteorological discomfort (ifthe statement is made long distance to someone in a different climate whohas no way of knowing what the weather is actually like where the speakerhappens to be,it is at most deceptive,not ironic at all-except,perhaps,in thesolipsistic mental world of the speaker).Irony is intentional and relational.Itis a means of communication,and it presupposes specific social and discursivesituations.Irony is a species of rhetoric.  \nEven when uttered ironically,the statement “I just love this weather”isnot a very good example of irony;it does not convey what irony is or what itcan do.That is because it does not display the dynamism of irony,because itdoes not vibrate unstably between belief and unbelief.A more representativeinstance of irony can be found in the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice:\"It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession ofa good fortune,must be in want of a wife.”Perhaps this actually isn't true;perhaps not everyone thinks it is.But who would dare to deny it?Not JaneAusten.  \nIrony is never completely self-evident.There is no statement so ironic asto ensure that its irony will not be lost.Jane Austen has been taken at herword.Swift's Modest Proposal has been read straight.Randy Newman's song\"Short People,\"an object lesson in the absurdities of social prejudice,causedoutrage when it was released in the United States in 1977:audiences understoodNewman to be claiming,in all seriousness,that“short people got no reasonto live.”(Americans have an international reputation for being deaf to irony:they are only ever able to hear,or mean,one thing at a time.)  \nIrony is unlimited.It cannot be contained.No word,sentence,topic,orsubject matter is off limits to irony.There is never any way to know in advancewhether the meaning of an utterance will turn out to have been corroded byirony.Nothing is constitutionally immune to irony.  \nSome experiences,however,are incompatible with irony.In order to havethem at all,it is necessary to banish any hint of irony.Conversely,the arrivalof irony signals the end of the experience,or its diminution.Irony's oppositeis intensity.In moments of intense,overwhelming sensation,we have littleawareness of context and no attention to spare for more than one set of mean-ings.In such states,we become literalists:we can experience only one kind ofthing.The three cardinal experiences that demand the elimination of irony,or that cannot survive irony,are raw grief or suffering,religious transport,andsexual passion.Little wonder,then,if they tend to merge.  \nII  \nGood sex is not ironic.When sex is passionate,it makes us unaware of oursurroundings,indifferent to what we look like,oblivious to the larger context.Intense sexual pleasure is notoriously impervious to competing realities.Th","cbCaithnPJfnqpYd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaithnPJfnqpYd","pdf",525299,11,"English","# I\n## The structure and limits of irony\n## Irony’s dependence on context\n## When irony disappears\n# II\n## Good sex and the end of irony","[{\"question\":\"What makes irony work in communication?\",\"answer\":\"Irony depends on intentional, relational communication and requires shared social and discursive situations. 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