American woman dancer Duncan once got off a crack （说俏皮话）to Bernard Shaw: “Sir, given I am in combination with （与……结合） you, and that we have a child who has both my looks and your wisdom and ability. It should be crackerjack （杰出的）.” The commonplace-looking （相貌平平）, Irish writer Bernard Shaw cracked back（回嘴）: “ In case the child only has my looks but your wisdom and ability, that would be crack-brained（发疯的）.”[21]
In this story, Bernard Shaw’s Anxiety, what Bernard Shaw said is according to the sentence of the woman dancer Duncan. So they shared the understanding in common and the humor was in effect.
Example: Hat and Head
Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish nursery tale writer, was born in a humble family. He often wore a torn hat even in the winter. A playboy looked down upon （看不起） him and said unconscionably（肆无忌惮）: “What the shabby （寒酸的） thing on your head? Is that stilled called a hat?” Not to be outdone（胜过）, Andersen countered （对抗） that chap in reply: “What the shabby thing beneath your hat? Is that still called a head?”[22]
Here Andersen changed the order of the two words, “hat” and “head”, which helped him to crack back. Humor resulted .

 

Example: A Great Man
Einstein once wrote a letter to Charlie Chaplin. He said: “Your film ‘The Modern Time’, everybody in the world can understand. You will certainly become a great man. Einstein.”
In his answer to the letter Charlie Chaplin wrote: “ I admire you even more. Your Theory of Relativity nobody in the world understands, but you have already become a great man. Chaplin.”[23]
In this story, Charlie Chaplin was clever to lend irony to amuse and escape from being outdone.
From the above examples, the conclusion can be easily reached as irony is frequently used to produce humor. In other words, the humor feature of irony could be easily found in humor stories.

6. Pragmatic functions of irony
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