国外反讽研究的现状、趋势和展望

Status Quo, Trends and Prospects of Irony Studies Abroad

本文运用CiteSpace对WoS核心合集中1999-2018年语言学类别的反讽研究进行梳理,发现反讽研究主要聚焦在三个范畴:反讽的本质、反讽的认知过程、反讽的社会功能,形成了语言、认知、社会三位一体的反讽研究现状。近二十年来,该领域呈现出研究变量关系复杂化、研究对象多元化、研究方法和研究工具科学化的发展趋势。未来反讽研究应厘清反讽的"定义",考察反讽话语的互动以及关注跨文化差异等。

This paper adopted CiteSpace to analyze irony-related literature of linguistic category from 1999 to 2018 retrieved from Web of Science core collection.It was found that irony studies abroad could be classified into three categories:the nature of irony,the cognitive processing of irony,and social functions of irony,integrating linguistic,cognitive and social perspectives into a three-dimensional status quo.During the past two decades,research on this topic has shown a trend of involving more complex variables and multivariate objects as well as employing more scientific research methods and research tools.For future irony studies,more attention should be paid to sorting out the"definition"of irony,studying the interaction of irony discourse and focusing on cross-cultural differences.