语境与幽默

Context and Humor

幽默在社会活动中具有高效、强力的交际功能。随着社会交际的发展,人们越来越认识到幽默在社会交际中的重要性。语言的幽默性,在于其言外之意。言外之意的体现,离不开语境。本文从语言语境和非语言语境两个方面,利用语用学的观点和方法,来分析幽默语言的信息构成和幽默与语境的关系,探讨幽默语言创作的一些规律性的方法和原则。

Humor plays an effective communicative function in a multitude of social activities. People are coming to recognize its importance with the development of social communications. The implication of an expression, the decider of its humorous quality, is highly dependent on the context. This article applies to the pragmatic views and ways to analyze the informational construction of humorous language, and probes some regular methods and principles from both linguistic and nonlinguistic viewpoint.