In this paper, I analyze the construction of the trope of irony in a political interview, more specifically the interview
with a Spanish politician on television in 2013. Its context is the emergence of the 15M, a citizen’s protest movement against the cuts
imposed by the European Union and the Spanish Government. From a theoretical-methodological point of view, I adopt a holistic perspective,
inspired by Halliday’s approach of jointly analysing the form-function relationship and White’s constructivism. I also review the different
definitions and explanations of irony. After analysing the formal resources that construct irony, I give an account of the cognitive
frameworks that are opposed in this discourse, and finally describe their narrative disposition and the communicative functions that those
resources fulfill.