为何好笑?——从认知语言学探究幽默的产生机制

The Reason of Humor——A Cognitive Study on Generation Mechanism of Humor

幽默作为调味剂和催化剂大量充斥在生活的方方面面。幽默不仅显示了人们的修养和见识,而且在人际交往中扮演了至关重要的角色。研究发现,幽默涉及多种因素,幽默机制的产生涉及双重概念整合,是整合互动的结果。言者在第一概念整合过程中编码出致笑语句作为幽默产生的基础。言者与听者或读者的互动、听者或读者对幽默言语建构者意图的理解、识解方式、社会常识、认知能力和背景知识等因素经过双重概念整合,产生层创空间,使得幽默随之而出。

As a flavor and catalyst,humor is ubiquitous in daily life.Humor not only shows the culture and knowledge of people,but also plays a crucial role in interpersonal communication.It is found that humor is related to multiple factors and the birth of humor is a result of blending and interaction,referring to double conceptual blending.In the process of first conceptual blending,the speaker encodes laughter-eliciting constructions as the basis of humor.Moreover,interaction between the speaker and listener or reader,the understanding of speaker’s intention,cognitive ability,background knowledge and other factors blend and interact with each other in double conceptual blending network.As a result,there appears the emergent structure and the humor.