The study addresses the perception of journalists about the use of irony
in their everyday professional enunciations. This is an initial incursion into this
discussion, as from information of journalists who work in the editorial room of the
daily newspaper O Liberal, from Belém, Pará, one of the oldest in circulation in
the Brazilian Amazon, founded in 1946. In journalistic enunciation, language plays
significant role on the modes of say and the provision of meaning effects
possibilities, including the ironic. In print journalism, the irony eminently plays a
critical role, with multiple resources of use, and not is situated, necessarily, as a
category of humor. The research has showed that professionals hold that
knowledge about the irony and use it as a strategic discursive resource in their
journalistic constructions, counting on the reader's sagacity to perceive them or
create them. After all, the irony depends on the interlocutors to be established.
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