从关联理论角度解释话语幽默——以美剧《生活大爆炸》为例

Explanation of the Humorous Utterances Based on the Relevance Theory——Take The Big Bang Theory for Example

选取《生活大爆炸》中大量幽默言语,从关联理论出发,探究幽默是如何产生的,又是怎样被理解的。事实证明关联理论对幽默言语具有很强的解释力,为幽默话语研究开拓了新领域。

Selecting large quantities of humorous utterances from the American TV series The Big Bang Theory, this paper aims to explore how the humor is produced and understood based on the Relevance Theory. The fact proved that the Relevance Theory can explain the humorous utterances forcefully and it paves a new way for the research on humorous utterances.