Abbasova, Aytemiz2025-07-292025-07-2920242544-93382544-9435http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14346/2760This paper studies the ways in which verbal irony can be used as an impoliteness tool. From this aspect verbal irony is investigated as a politeness means or an impoliteness tool depending on the strength of criticism, in this case the main matter is equality and inequality in interlocutors’ status.enIntended ironyFace workOver- PolitenessMəqalə