A Study of Verbal Humor in Public Speech from the Perspective of Relevance Theory and Cooperative Principle--Taking TED Talks as An Example

Verbal humor carries rich cultural connotation and reflects the wisdom,communicative skills of the humor maker.There are many researches on verbal humor both at home and abroad,especially in the fields of sitcoms and literature from the perspective of pragmatics and cognitive linguistics.However,the researches on the humorous corpus of public speech are limited.This paper intendsto use qualitative research methods to explore the mechanism of verbal humor generation under the theoretical framework of cooperative principle and relevance theory.Through the analysis in the paper,it points out that verbal humor can be produced by violating the cooperative principle,the gap between maximum relevance and optimal relevance,and the speaker’s expanding contextual reasoning.The cooperation principle and relevance theory have a good elaboration on humor in public speeches,but both have their own deficiencies in explanatory power.Only the combination of those two theories can better explain the generation mechanism of verbal humor.

Perspectives on the Applicability of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle in China

As two main universal principles in conversation,Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle play important roles in communication and intercultural communication.While in language teaching and learning in China,the neglect of the principles is caused by various reasons and thus leads to communication disorder in intercultural communication.The issue should draw the attention of English teachers who can lead students into the acquisition of the two principles in language learning.

Application of Cooperative Principle in “Twilight:Saga and Eclipse”

After the title was "Harry Potter era" magical masterpiece,"Lord of the Rings","Harry Potter" and;"he Chronicles of Narnia" " Twilight of the City" Series on behalf of the international magic series.The "Twilight of the City" series are sold in the United States had more than 50 million.And the movie is also popular in the world.The hero,Edward Cullen,is popular in the world,many comments come to this character,to understand the movie more clearly,this paper will analysis the hero,Edward Cullen,from the application of cooperative principle,finding out the conflict in his heart.

A Study of Humor of The Actor' s Lines in If You Are the One from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

In the thesis the author explores the humor of the actor' s lines in If You Are the One from the perspective of cooperative princi ple and its four maxims in the context of pragmatics.Through analyzing the purposeful violation of the maxims in the environment of the cooperation principle,the author intends to probe into the ways the actors figure out the implicature of humorous utterances and manage to carry on the conversation and the reproduction of the amusing effect.

Brief Analysis on the Application of Cooperative Principle in Hamlet

Cooperative Principle put forward by Grice has been widely used in our daily conversions. And the violation of Cooperative Principle is the source of humors and special connotations. Hamlet is one of the most famous plays in the world written by William Shakespeare. In the conversations of this play, Cooperative Principle and its violation is also widely used by the playwright.This article explores the application of the Cooperative Principle and its violation in Hamlet in details in order to make the readers interpret the play better.

The Violation of Cooperative Principle and English Teaching

The Violation of CP has closely related to English teaching.The violation of CP can be divided into two aspects—the unintentional violation and the intentional violation.The unintentional violation has some disadvantages to English teaching while the intentional violation of CP has some advantages.In this paper,I discussed the relation between the violation of CP and English teaching briefly and give some suggestions to English teachers.

On the Causes of the Violation of Cooperative Principle

Grice s Cooperative Principle places a great role in explaining how the human speech communication really does.Grice holds that the participants in a conversation should adhere to the Cooperative Principle.However,to our surprise,in actual speech communication,it is many phenomena of the violation of Cooperative Principle that there exist.In the light of Grice ' s Cooperative Principle,probing the causes of the violation of Cooperative Principle,the paper is to reveal some regular patterns of human language communication,to delve into the efficient models stimulating the development of a language,and to offer some research conclusions for promoting the tacit understanding of communication and the standardization of language.

A Probe into Humorous Effects of TV Programs from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle——A Case Study on If You Are the One

This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certain context. Through the analysis of representative dialogues which obey and violate the maxims respectively, this paper concludes that speakers, by appropriately violating the maxims and unconsciously observing the maxims of the CP, manage to achieve humorous effects and conversational implicature. Meanwhile, this paper aims to help people express themselves appropriately to avoid pragmatic failures and achieve the goal of communication.

Sense of Humor of Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice: Realized by Violating the Quality Maxim of Cooperative Principle

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most popular novel. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created a supremely spirited and attractive heroine, Elizabeth. In this paper, the author provides a new perspective-from the Quality Maxim of CP to analyze and appreciate one of Elizabeth's personalities-sense of humor.

A Study on the Implicatures in Chinese Advertising from the Perspective of Flouting the Maxims of Cooperative Principle

Advertising language is very critical in advertising and also contributes much to producing advertising effect. As one of the most important pragmatic principles, the Cooperative Principle (CP) is adopted much in linguistic researches. Also, by analyzing a large number of Chinese advertisements with CP, the author finds that it is common that advertisers try to generate implicatures by flouting the maxims of CP. This paper brings a clear look of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims. It also sheds new light on the interpretation of Chinese advertisements.

A Study of the Implicatures in English Advertising-based on the Cooperative Principle

As a form of communication,advertising has been an object for study.Scholars at home and abroad have been studying it from different perspectives,this paper explores the persuasiveness of the advertising language from the perspective of pragmatic theories,explaining the violations of Grice's Cooperative Principle,which leads to the implication and further uses the conversational implicature theory to analyze the persuasiveness of the advertising.

A Study on the Ambiguity in English News Headlines from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

In recent years,some news headlines do not focus on the contents of news,but exaggerate the fact.The main reason for this phenomenon is that the news editors disobey Cooperative Principle.As a result,it causes two different effects:one is negative;the other is positive.So the paper will find out the reasons of the ambiguity by using examples appearing in different newspapers and give a detailed analysis from the perspective of Cooperative Principle.

Pragmatic Analysis of Dialogues in Chinese and Foreign Films--On the Basis of Cooperative Principle

People speaking English and Chinese have their own ways of communication,which is reflected evidently in the mov ies.Movies are reaching their communicative purpose through the way of dialogues,mirroring the distinct cultures.this article is going to analyze the adjacency pairs from the movies The Devil Wears Prada(American) and Go LaLa Go!(China).How the CP is observed and broken differently by English and Chinese speakers respectively due to different cultural background in the adja cency pairs of the movies is going to be the main topic of our discussion.

The Application of Cooperative Principle in Translation

The cooperative principle in conversation proposed by Herberr Paul Grice is an important theory in pragmatics,which contrib utes a lot to translation.It introduces pragmatics to translation field and injects fresh vigor to translation practice.Translation is also a kind of conversation some time,thus it should also obey the Cooperative Principle and its maxims.Sometimes,translators have to violate some maxims in order to obey the cooperative principle better in some extent.This article will show some examples in which cooperative princi ples can be used as a guide or a scale to improve the quality of translation.

A Study on the Application in Business Letters of Cooperative Principle

With the rapid development of science and technology, English business letters have become one of the most crucial parts in foreign trade. English business letters play an important role in foreign trade, which aims to acquire information, make effective communication, deal with related matters, maintain friendly business relations and proceed regular business contacts.As an effective bridge and cooperative bond, English business letters receive its popularity in joint ventures. The leaders focus on the application of the English business letters.The paper focus on the study of English business letters through cooperative principle, letting users of English business letters have a more profound and comprehensive understanding. Therefore, it is better to guide and get desired outcome.

An Aspectual Analysis of Grice’s Maxim of Relation:Compared With the Principle of Relevance

The Cooperative Principle proposed by Herbert Paul Grice in 1967 requires speakers’utterances to comply with the objective of discourses,while receivers construct assumptions by reasoning speakers’implicatures.He set some maxims and sub-maxims to attempt to explain how the hearers get what is meant from what is said by speakers.What interests me is that the Maxim of Relation only includes one simple annotation—Be relevant without any other sub-maxims.Honestly,this is too obscure.So I would like to analyse Grice’s Maxim of Relation from its definition as well as classification,the discourse-topic and the relationship with context.And,more remarkable,the research method of this article is to explore the essence of the Maxim of Relation based on the opposite side as Dan Sperber and Deirdre Susan Moir Wilson’s the Principle of Relevance(Relevance Theory).

The Translation of Political Documents Guided by Cooperative Principles

格莱斯的会话合作原则及其四准则不仅适合人类口语交际,也适合翻译。翻译也是一种"会话",也应当遵守格莱斯的会话合作原则。根据会话合作原则的四准则和政治文献的特点,作者认为在翻译政治文献过程中可采用选词法、诠释法、减译法、增译法、轻化法、直译加注法、意译、借词法、创造性翻译法等几种翻译方法。

Applicability of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle in English Language Learning and Teaching in China

This essay aims to compare and contrast the Cooperative Principle(CP) and Politeness Principle(PP) under the context of English learning and teaching in China.Through both the advantages and the disadvantages of the two principles,the author attempts to reach the conclusion that CP and PP,two long-tested guiding principles can offer both students and teachers a new criterion against which the accuracy and appropriateness of cross-cultural communications can be measured.

On the Deviation of Cooperative Principle in Business Negotiation

Business negotiation is a delicate art and can be a very trying process of confrontation and concession.Cooperative principle is ac knowledged as a principle of conversation of enhancing the mutual trust and understanding for the purpose of increasing the odd for com munication success.This thesis attempts to highlight the cooperative principle and analyze its inconsistence in business negotiation scenarios.In this paper,whether Cooperative Principle is applicable in business negotiations is the main research question.