A IRONIA COMO UM CONCEITO SEMIOLÓGICO

Abstract

The present article brings an approach of the concept of irony under the semiological point of view, intending to make the principles of the dialectical relation that irony establishes with the symbolical clear, as well as to describe the conditions for her being used as a conceptual and semiotical analysis instrument. The text seeks to bring a philosophical analysis of the concept of irony with references to many authors which have brought it along as a pertinent topica, and whose work, even if just indirectly connected with irony, still have particular injunctions that allow to constitute a dialectical link with it. In this sense, irony appears in its fundamental ambiguity: it functions at once as a rhetoric structural figure, and at the same time as a determination where the discourse goes dialectically beyond itself and open the borders for the poetic. Therefore, it is not just about elucidating an applicability of irony as an instrumentally oriented concept, inasmuch as elaborating an ironic point of view that aesthetically conditions the semiological point of view