Abstract
Presupposition, as a pragmatic concept, plays an important role in discourse construction. Pragmatic presupposition works inside and outside ironic discourse to help maintain cohesion and coherence as well as direction and integrity of it. This paper presents pragmatic analyses on irony selected from Pride and Prejudice with different functions of presuppositions from social standards, collusive agreement, physical situation, and previous circumstances, and hopes to provide a different way of theorizing irony and ironic discourse.
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