英语中言语幽默模糊特征的维护面子功能

Face-Saving Function of Vagueness in English Verbal Humor

本文重审了语用方面模糊的概念,然后在Brown和Levinson面子保全论的基础上,注重探讨人们在交际中是如何运用言语幽默的模糊特征来维护和保全交际双方的积极面子和消极面子的。

Vagueness in pragmatics is redefined in this paper. Then based on the face-saving theory of Brown and Levinson, This paper attempts to analyze the ways in which the vagueness in verbal humor could be employed to save the interactants＇ face.