Verbal humor in the province of semantics and rhetorics was focused on and the excerpts in American sitcom Friends was taken as its research object.The famous classic theory: the semantic script theory,was given a ske...Verbal humor in the province of semantics and rhetorics was focused on and the excerpts in American sitcom Friends was taken as its research object.The famous classic theory: the semantic script theory,was given a sketch outline accompanying examples to state how SSTH works in analysing the verbal humor.Moreover,the employment of different rhetoric skills which elicit humourous effects in a powerful way were appreciated in detail.展开更多
文摘Verbal humor in the province of semantics and rhetorics was focused on and the excerpts in American sitcom Friends was taken as its research object.The famous classic theory: the semantic script theory,was given a sketch outline accompanying examples to state how SSTH works in analysing the verbal humor.Moreover,the employment of different rhetoric skills which elicit humourous effects in a powerful way were appreciated in detail.
