Abstract:

This study analyzed how captions on Facebook “Kuffya Team” are used to convey irony and solidarity with Palestinians (pro-Palestinians), particularly females, represented as beasts of burden. It aimed to critically analyze Palestinian women's survival in the West Bank. Ironic expressions can be hypothesized as internet-supportive content mainly spread through social media sites, which show in diverse practices such as captions with written texts that can or could not be informal. This paper used a qualitative eclectic method in its analysis of conversational ironic expressions that operated as data collected from 8 captions/memes selected using a purposive sampling process from the “Kuffya Team”. The study used the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) by Attardo (2017) conversational ironic expressions as the framework of the research. The researcher implemented purposive sampling procedures for debating the use of pretexts or forms of ironic expressions as the data of analysis placed within experimental and speculative notions. The results indicated that all the responses to the creating posts showed some practice of oddness and were vocally ironical. The nature of the initiating columns agreeing with the speech act taxonomy was expressive and firm. The analysis further exposed three pretexts of irony namely sarcasm, witticism, and puns in the responses to the inventing columns with sarcasm, which established the main show that users or anti-Palestinians on Facebook use irony to disguise the real caption of the heroic role of the Palestinian woman.