美剧《好汉两个半》中违背合作原则语言幽默分析
毕业论文关键词 幽默语言 合作原则 《好汉两个半》
Title An Analysis of Humor in American Sitcom Two and A Half Men with Cooperative Principle Abstract Humor is one of the most effective ways of interpersonal communication. Humor language is wildly used in the form of conversation in everyday life which reflects some pragmatic features. The early research of humor was mainly focused on the perspective of philosophy and literary works. Since the 1980s, with the development of pragmatics, humor has been the concern of pragmatic linguistics. The present study intends to explore the underlying mechanisms of humor found in American comedy Two and a Half Men with Grice’s theory: Cooperative Principle (CP). Humor language plays an important role in sitcom. The sitcom Two and a Half men was very famous in America and has been regarded as an outstanding achievement for comedy in US. It contains plenty of interesting humorous dialogues and these examples provide analytical material for the pragmatic analysis. The purpose of this thesis is to explain the mechanisms of humor by means of relevant pragmatic theories. The author analyzes the numerous examples of humorous utterance through the theory of Cooperative Principle. From the perspective of methodology, the author employs qualitative analysis. The author first selected the humorous utterances in 12 episodes randomly form sitcom Two and a Half Men as data resources and then classify them into theories. The qualitative analysis is used in respects of the analyzing and illustrating in details. The paper makes a list of various rhetorical devices such as irony, metaphor, hyperbole, pun, euphemism and other language devices employed in English humor. The study tells us that the deliberate violation of the maxims of CP can cause humor effects. Through the analysis, we will understand the way that the humorous effect achieved. It verified and developed the corresponding theoretical hypothesis by using the pragmatic approach to show the principle of humor in sitcom. This study gave us some useful suggestions to understand the humorous utterances in English sitcoms and appreciate the humorous utterance in daily communication. It also provided great help in the English learning and teaching.
Keywords Humor Cooperative Principle Two and a Half Men
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