As everybody knows,Mark Twain is a great social critic as well as a great humorist in the late 19th century.In order to present the characteristics of Mark Twain’s humor,the paper mainly discusses his writing techniq...As everybody knows,Mark Twain is a great social critic as well as a great humorist in the late 19th century.In order to present the characteristics of Mark Twain’s humor,the paper mainly discusses his writing techniques from different points of view.On the one hand,Mark Twain’s humor is distinguished for his liberal use of funny American vernacular style,which breaks away from the influence of British traditional literature and fully embodies the spirit of America.On the other hand.Mark Twain uses various figures of speech,such as irony,exaggeration,contract,anti-climax and repetition,etc,to probe deeply into the character and conscience of the world,to teach people lessons about society.展开更多
Verbal humor carries rich cultural connotation and reflects the wisdom,communicative skills of the humor maker.There are many researches on verbal humor both at home and abroad,especially in the fields of sitcoms and ...Verbal humor carries rich cultural connotation and reflects the wisdom,communicative skills of the humor maker.There are many researches on verbal humor both at home and abroad,especially in the fields of sitcoms and literature from the perspective of pragmatics and cognitive linguistics.However,the researches on the humorous corpus of public speech are limited.This paper intendsto use qualitative research methods to explore the mechanism of verbal humor generation under the theoretical framework of cooperative principle and relevance theory.Through the analysis in the paper,it points out that verbal humor can be produced by violating the cooperative principle,the gap between maximum relevance and optimal relevance,and the speaker’s expanding contextual reasoning.The cooperation principle and relevance theory have a good elaboration on humor in public speeches,but both have their own deficiencies in explanatory power.Only the combination of those two theories can better explain the generation mechanism of verbal humor.展开更多
Friends is a very popular sitcom in America and even in China for its great humor, especially for its verbal humor. In order to understand the American humor better, the author tries to find out and appreciate the ver...Friends is a very popular sitcom in America and even in China for its great humor, especially for its verbal humor. In order to understand the American humor better, the author tries to find out and appreciate the verbal humor in the framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle and John Austin's Speech Act Theory. By this, the paper helps to grasp the wise humor in Friends and convince people of the strength and operability of Cooperative Principle as well as Speech Act Theory.展开更多
文摘As everybody knows,Mark Twain is a great social critic as well as a great humorist in the late 19th century.In order to present the characteristics of Mark Twain’s humor,the paper mainly discusses his writing techniques from different points of view.On the one hand,Mark Twain’s humor is distinguished for his liberal use of funny American vernacular style,which breaks away from the influence of British traditional literature and fully embodies the spirit of America.On the other hand.Mark Twain uses various figures of speech,such as irony,exaggeration,contract,anti-climax and repetition,etc,to probe deeply into the character and conscience of the world,to teach people lessons about society.
文摘Verbal humor carries rich cultural connotation and reflects the wisdom,communicative skills of the humor maker.There are many researches on verbal humor both at home and abroad,especially in the fields of sitcoms and literature from the perspective of pragmatics and cognitive linguistics.However,the researches on the humorous corpus of public speech are limited.This paper intendsto use qualitative research methods to explore the mechanism of verbal humor generation under the theoretical framework of cooperative principle and relevance theory.Through the analysis in the paper,it points out that verbal humor can be produced by violating the cooperative principle,the gap between maximum relevance and optimal relevance,and the speaker’s expanding contextual reasoning.The cooperation principle and relevance theory have a good elaboration on humor in public speeches,but both have their own deficiencies in explanatory power.Only the combination of those two theories can better explain the generation mechanism of verbal humor.
文摘Friends is a very popular sitcom in America and even in China for its great humor, especially for its verbal humor. In order to understand the American humor better, the author tries to find out and appreciate the verbal humor in the framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle and John Austin's Speech Act Theory. By this, the paper helps to grasp the wise humor in Friends and convince people of the strength and operability of Cooperative Principle as well as Speech Act Theory.
