Abstract
Throughout history，humorous language has been a major form to express humor in our daily life. The cause of humor has always been the topic of Chinese and foreign scholars to explore. After introducing some relevant knowledge of English Humor and Pragmatics, this thesis will use Cooperative principle, Conversational Implicature and Politeness Principle to analyze how English verbal humor emerges. This thesis thinks when some of the maxims of Cooperative Principle or the maxims of Politeness principle are violated, conversational implicature will occur, thus the application of pragmatic principles to the analysis of English verbal humor will make the readers have a better understanding of English humor.
Key Words: English Verbal Humor Cooperative Principle Conversational Implicature Politeness Principle
摘 要
从古至今，英语论文网站，言语幽默一直是我们日常生活中表达幽默的一种主要方式。幽默的产生原因也一直是中外学者研讨的话题之一。
本文在介绍幽默和语用学的相关知识的基础上,应用语用学中的合作准则、会话含义理论和礼貌准则来略论英语言语幽默的产生机制。本文认为合作准则的某些原则或礼貌准则的某些原则被违反时，会话含义就会产生幽默效果。应用语用学相关知识可以帮助人们深入的略论幽默的产生，英语论文范文，从而更加深刻地理解言语幽默。
关键词： 英语言语幽默 合作准则 会话含义 礼貌准则
1 Introduction
With the development of our society, humor is more and more considered as a necessary part in our daily life. It is an art, culture and the reflection of our humans’ civilization and wisdom. It represents the profound understanding of people in their real life. It always comes with a concise and vivid linguistic form and has a deep meaning which will make people rejoice, laugh and enlighten. Humor not only owns the characteristic of linguistic utility, it can also reflect the features and law of English language from many aspects. On one side its formation is the internal law of the language and on the other side it depends on the using of language in the context.
This thesis attempts to look into English humor from the perspective of pragmatics. With the application of some pragmatics principles to the analysis of English humor, namely, conversational implicature, cooperative principle and politeness principle, the thesis aims to help English learners to understand English humor well and then begin to appreciate English humor. |
