Presenting some of the initial ideas for my PhD project such as viewing irony as a semiotic phenomenon, rather than limiting it to "verbal irony". Applying the distinction between monosemiotic and polysemiotic irony, as well as between unimodal and multimodal kinds of irony. Analysing the role of conventionality in irony. Contrasting and comparing irony with metaphor and proposing a preliminary definition of irony.