言语幽默的语用分析

A pragmatic analysis of verbal humor

幽默在我们的日常生活中起着非常重要的作用,古往今来,许多专家和学者都从不同的角度和学科对幽默进行了研究。本论文将从语用学的角度入手,首先讨论格莱斯的合作原则及其在言语幽默中的应用,然后以关联理论为依据,从认知的层面解释言语幽默现象,揭示幽默的制笑机制。

Humor has played an extremely important part in our everyday life. Many masters and scholars have studied humor in their own different disciplines. This thesis, from a pragmatic point of view, first discusses Grice＇s Cooperative Principles and its application in verbal humor. Afterwards, it tries to explain the humorous phenomenon from the cognitive aspect which is based on the Relevance Theory, and then elaborate the joke - making mechanism.