irony is a technique in figurative language which is very common in the works of mahdi akhavaan saales and can be considered as a prominent feature in his style. although irony is used as a common technique by many iranian writers, many critics have not studied it fully. the author of this article studies irony in the works of mahdi akhavaan saales.

The construction of a figurative interpretation for a string like Some surgeons are butchers (Gildea & Glucks-berg, 1983) has been traditionally viewed as subordinate to the construction of a literal interpretation. What Cacciari and Glucksberg (1994) refer to as the standard view of figurative processing—a view that largely stems from Searle (1979) and Grice (1975)—contends that a figurative i...