le Chinese irony simply counts on words. Besides, irony for affection turns out to appear more frequently in Chinese irony than in English. Last but not the least, irony for emphasis can be regarded as a unique feature of Chinese irony since it could not be found in English.

7. Conclusion
As stated, the pragmatic functions of English irony are as follows: used as a means to express critique or discontent, used as a means to satirize, used as an approach to be polite, used as an approach to be humorous. Meanwhile, the pragmatic functions of Chinese irony are presented as: irony for praise and denigration, irony for satire, irony for fun, irony for affection and irony for emphasis.
From the above discussion in this paper, we can come to a conclusion that the major pragmatic functions of irony could be stated as humorous functions. In a broad sense, the humorous functions may be regarded as light humorous functions and heavy humorous functions. The function to be humorous could be considered as one breach of the humorous functions. The light humorous functions include the function to be polite, the function to be humorous, irony for fun, etc. On the other hand, the function for satire serves as a heavy humorous function. To sum up, the main feature of irony is humor feature.

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