IRONIC STATEMENT AS AN INDIRECT SPEECH TACTICS: ON POLITICAL DISCOURSE BASIS

The article is devoted to the study of the irony multifunctional nature on English political discourse basis. The author considers irony as an expressive speech act reflecting emotional reactions to the situation and associated with the psychological attitude of the speaker.The research carried out gives us grounds to assert that the analyzed speech acts, as an indirect tactics of a producer intention express a number of functions, viz. attractive and persuasive ones, speech behavior intensification.

Key words: irony, multifunctional nature, indirect tactics, speech act.