从合作原则看情景喜剧《老友记》的幽默

On Humour of the Sitcom Friends from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

合作原则是语用学中的重要内容,它由四个准则组成,是谈话者为保证交流顺畅遵循的基本原则。在日常生活中,人们有时会故意违反某项准则来产生会话含义。情景喜剧《老友记》便充分利用了违反合作原则所带来的幽默效果,使剧中人物的对话充满了喜剧因素。

Cooperative principle is a key factor in pragmatics study. It consists of four maxims and is the basic principle for the communication to proceed smoothly. In daily life, people sometimes purposefully flout certain maxim to create conversational implicature. The sitcom Friends make full use of the humourous effects brought by the flouting of cooperative principle, thus create all the humourous conversations.