简·奥斯丁是英国19世纪初批判现实主义小说家,反讽既是她作品的一大写作特点,又是她作品最显著的特色和基调,她的作品在运用反讽的基础上还融入了独特的文学敏感,形成了更为成熟精巧的反讽手法。奥斯丁将讽刺的矛头对准当时社会中人们的婚姻状况进行了不遗余力的反讽,并对那些只注重感性的女性进行了温和的反讽。《爱玛》中的反讽既有由小说人物对话构成的反讽,又有为小说情节设计的反讽,更有情景反讽、戏剧性反讽,这些都集中体现了反讽的语言特点。 Jane Austen was a critical realist novelist in the early 19th century in the United Kingdom. Irritability was not only a major feature of her writing, but also the most prominent feature and tone of her work. Her works, based on the use of irony, also incorporated uniqueness Sensitive to the literature, the formation of a more sophisticated and sophisticated irony. Austen gave ironic irony toward the irony of the people’s marital status in society at that time and gave a mild irony to those who only paid attention to sensuality. The irony in Emma includes not only the irony formed by dialogue between novels and characters, but also the irony designed for the plot of the novel. There are more scene ironies and dramatic ironies, all of which reflect the language features of irony.