but allows the hearer to arrive at the offensive point of your remark indirectly, by way of implicature.” [18]
Irony can happen if the speaker overvalues the Politeness Principle by blatantly breaking a maxim of the Cooperative Principle in order to uphold the Politeness Principle. For example:
A: Geoff has just borrowed your car.
B: Well, I like THAT! [19]
According to the Irony Principle, we can interpret this ironical utterance this way: what B says is polite to Geoff and is clearly not true. Therefore what B really means is impolite to Geoff and true. Leech believes that the IP can make a speaker impolite while seeming to be polite. In being polite, a speaker is often faced with a clash between the CP and the PP. The speaker has to choose how far to “trade-off” the CP against the PP. In being ironic, a speaker exploits the PP in order to uphold, at a remote level, the CP.
The Irony Principle serves the purpose of avoiding direct criticism through ‘being antisocial’, being insincerely polite. This principle explains why some of the Gricean maxims are breached. [20]

5. Irony and verbal humor
5.1 Verbal Humor
From the surface meaning of the phrase “verbal humor”, we can easily get its meaning: verbal humor is the humor that is organized through verbal form. Verbal humor is the humor that is created or expressed through language with the assistance of situational context occasionally.
Verbal humor can be produced by kinds of figure of speech, say, personification, exaggeration, irony and so on.

5.2 Verbal irony as an approach to verbal humor
Verbal irony refers to spoken words only. It occurs when a character says one thing, but suggests or intends the opposite. It is an approach to humor. As an expression of wisdom, irony is frequently used by the great minds, say, writers or philosophers.
Example: Bernard Shaw’s Anxiety
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