SPECIFIC FEATURES OF IRONY

Abstract

This article tells about the history of the emergence of irony, one of the means of expressing humor in the Uzbek language, as a means of expressing thought and its use as a means of evaluation in fiction. In the language of a work of art, in the construction of sentences, the meaning of linguistic units is reflected in the perception of expressive means, in specific forms of communication between characters, as well as in the functions of linguistic units in social activity. . Means of humorous expressiveness in our language are revealed under a number of names, such as irony, wordplay, sarcasm, contamination, humor, satire, askiya.