摘要
作为英语中一种特殊的语言现象，幽默在英语文化中起着十分重要的影响。它不仅担任着人际联系润滑剂的角色，而且是个人魅力的表现。关于我国的英语学习者来说，对英语幽默的理解和应用始终是英语学习中的一个瓶颈，英语论文题目，英语论文范文，如果打破这一瓶颈，将极大地提高英语学习者学习英语的兴趣，促进他们的英语学习。
本文将应用会话含义理论对英语幽默进行略论。由于合作准则是会话含义理论中最重要的准则，所以本文将着重应用合作准则及其四个原则对英语幽默进行探讨。本文主要探讨措施为描述法和案例略论法。描述法主要用在理论方面，案例略论主要出现在应用会话含义理论对英语幽默的略论上。
关键字：幽默；会话含义；合作准则；违反
Abstract
As a special language phenomenon in English, humor plays a very important role in English culture. It not only acts as the lubricant in people’s relationship, but also shows one’s personal attractiveness. English humor is a bottleneck for Chinese English learners to understand and use during English learning. Chinese English learners’ interests will be stimulated if this barrier is broken.
This paper will use Conversational Implicature theory to analyze English humor. Cooperative principle is the most important principle in Conversational Implicature theory. The author will focus on using cooperative principle and its four maxims to do a research on English Humor. The main methods of this paper are Descriptive method and Case analysis. Descriptive method will be involved in this thesis mainly when describing Cooperative Principle (CP) as the theoretical basis. Case analysis will be used in the analyzing humor through conversational Implicature theory.
Key words: Humorous Utterance; Conversational Implicature; Cooperative Principle; Violation
1 Introduction
Humor is the discourse, action, or facial-expression which can amuse people in the process of their communication. Since people’s communication is realized in the discourse, humor is often appeared in everyday’s discourse. Its generation must draw support from the language and depends heavily on the context in which it is used. Generally speaking, pragmatics, as a new field in linguistics, studies how people interpret language and use it through contexts in communication. In resent years, there have been a large number of pragmatic studies of humor. Raskin put forward “Cooperative Principle in humor”; Attardo criticized that humor violates the cooperative Principle and said that humor violates at least one maxim in Cooperative Principle. |
