Abstract
Explaining ironic communication from a pragmatic standpoint has proven to be a challenge as interesting as it has been tricky. Some leading theories got off to a promising start in this endeavor, but they ended up making some rather forced maneuvers when counterexamples were presented one after the other. I shall show that a satisfactory explanation can be offered for ironic utterances: The ironic speaker’s lack of commitment toward one of the contents of the utterance is the starting point of a communicative act in which the ironic content is implicated. My proposal is called the “Asif-Theory,” and it is grounded in Korta and Perry’s Critical Pragmatics.
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