跨文化背景下英汉言语幽默的对比分析

A Comparative Analysis to Verbal Humor in English and Chinese under the Intercultural Background

幽默是任何文化中都普遍存在的语言现象,它既有全球共性,同时又因民族的不同特性而存在差异。从语音、语义和语用三个层次探讨英汉言语幽默在语言生成机制上的相似性,从文化学的角度,分析它们在幽默的主题、幽默使用的场合和对象、幽默的风格这三方面存在的差异,促进幽默在不同文化间的传播。

Humor is a common language phenomenon existing in all cultures. There are both general and different characteristics between English hu mor and Chinese humor. This article discusses their similarities in linguistic mechanism of humor production from the phonetic, semantic and pragmatic as pects. From the perspective of culture, their differences are also examined in the terms of humor topic., using occasion and target, and style. Promote the hu mot in intercultural communication