Humor not only exists in people's daily life,but also through sketch,cross talk talk show,stand-up Comedy and other forms of performance to bring people happy.Many scholars analyze Joe Wong's stand-up comedy f...Humor not only exists in people's daily life,but also through sketch,cross talk talk show,stand-up Comedy and other forms of performance to bring people happy.Many scholars analyze Joe Wong's stand-up comedy from the Relevance Theory.But few scholars analyze it from the Cooperative Principle.Based on a review of previous studies on stand-up comedy,this thesis selects some classic utterances from stand-up comedy of Joe Wong at Radio and Television Correspondent's Association Dinner(RTCA dinner),The David Letterman Show and The Ellen Show as a research corpus and studies the humor is created from the perspective of violating of the Cooperative Principle,and then attempts to help people understanding and appreciating American humor deeply.This thesis finds violating the Cooperative Principle(CP)is an important way for talk show performers to create humor,which will help them make people laugh.Besides,during this way,they can use many rhetoric tactics to help them,such as irony,exaggeration and pun.This thesis has important significances for the study of talk show's humor with the help of flouting the CP.Firstly,it contributes to the development of the talk show performs.Secondly,it can add more interesting things to communication and help the Chinese audiences to comprehend the American humor from a different aspect.Thirdly,it riches the theories of humor by violating the CP in the talk show programs.展开更多
Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing ...Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing the stories from different figures' visual angles.The novel features tragic content with comic form,anti-hero and illogical narrative structure.Catch-22,which no one can get out of,is not a simple rule;in other words,it's really a snare and this no-win situation exists in every corner of people's daily time.展开更多
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventee...Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventeenth,eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.People believed or were led to believe that Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies were in clear opposition:Shakespeare’s comedies were sweet,romantic,amiable,popular and entertaining,whereas Jonson’s were based on an abstract theory of humors,cold,satiric,pedantic,and moralizing.Only in the last century did these oppositions begin to change,but too slowly.This paper calls those binary oppositions into question.It tries to present a more truthful picture of these two playwrights and their comedies through an examination of some of their works.It argues that some of those oppositions are stereotypes and should not be taken seriously by contemporary Shakespearean and Jonsonian scholars.展开更多
Northrop Frye' s four narrative forms:romance,tragedy,irony,and comedy can help explain the problematic structure of Margaret Atwood' s novel Cat' s Eye,in which the narrative,as well as certain other lite...Northrop Frye' s four narrative forms:romance,tragedy,irony,and comedy can help explain the problematic structure of Margaret Atwood' s novel Cat' s Eye,in which the narrative,as well as certain other literary features,indicates that it is essentially a come dy - a story of how a hero forms a desirable new society in the face of strong opposition.But this comedy is also ironic.展开更多
Zhao Benshan's sketch comedies are full of humorous elements.But the studies of the mechanisms causing humor in these Chinese contexts are relatively rare in the pragmatic domain at home.This essay,appealing to se...Zhao Benshan's sketch comedies are full of humorous elements.But the studies of the mechanisms causing humor in these Chinese contexts are relatively rare in the pragmatic domain at home.This essay,appealing to several pragmatic theories—mainly cooperative principle and polite principle,aims to exemplify and explicate the underlying systems that make up the humorous language.展开更多
We utilize data on comedy moviegoers from 18 cities in China to investigate the impact of the positive mood triggered by these movies on the stock returns of locally headquartered listed companies.We find that althoug...We utilize data on comedy moviegoers from 18 cities in China to investigate the impact of the positive mood triggered by these movies on the stock returns of locally headquartered listed companies.We find that although these movies have no relation to investment itself,the sentiment triggered by these movies could affect the risk decision making of investors.Moreover,the stock returns of locally headquartered companies become significantly negative after comedy movies are screened in their respective cities.These results support the mood maintenance hypothesis.This research also provides new evidence for the presence of home bias in capital markets.展开更多
By comparing Love Actually and Pretty Woman,the two representatives of romance comedy,it is not difficult to arrive at the conclusion that UK romance comedy is more realism while the other is more idealism.It more or ...By comparing Love Actually and Pretty Woman,the two representatives of romance comedy,it is not difficult to arrive at the conclusion that UK romance comedy is more realism while the other is more idealism.It more or less has something related to the different cultures and national characters between the US and the UK.展开更多
Multidimensional Scale Evaluation Rules as a performer in the field of learning assessment is feasible, but for each dimension settings, level settings and value setting need to be developed according to the actual ra...Multidimensional Scale Evaluation Rules as a performer in the field of learning assessment is feasible, but for each dimension settings, level settings and value setting need to be developed according to the actual raters, object evaluation, the focus of the evaluation. Scores of overall dimensions use variance analysis, and the results show a significant difference. In sub-dimension score comparison, the high group and low group both got higher scores in the degree of difficulty performing works and read music accuracy. The high group and low group are different on dimensions of the lowest score. Total scores in the scale of multi-dimensional evaluation of rules are positively correlated on the scores on the improvising horizontal dimension, but the correlation is not very high level, that is not all students who is better in playing levels, and they can get higher scores on the improvising horizontal dimension. Using multi-dimensional scale scores and teacher direct evaluation rules score are significantly different for student achievement.展开更多
文摘Humor not only exists in people's daily life,but also through sketch,cross talk talk show,stand-up Comedy and other forms of performance to bring people happy.Many scholars analyze Joe Wong's stand-up comedy from the Relevance Theory.But few scholars analyze it from the Cooperative Principle.Based on a review of previous studies on stand-up comedy,this thesis selects some classic utterances from stand-up comedy of Joe Wong at Radio and Television Correspondent's Association Dinner(RTCA dinner),The David Letterman Show and The Ellen Show as a research corpus and studies the humor is created from the perspective of violating of the Cooperative Principle,and then attempts to help people understanding and appreciating American humor deeply.This thesis finds violating the Cooperative Principle(CP)is an important way for talk show performers to create humor,which will help them make people laugh.Besides,during this way,they can use many rhetoric tactics to help them,such as irony,exaggeration and pun.This thesis has important significances for the study of talk show's humor with the help of flouting the CP.Firstly,it contributes to the development of the talk show performs.Secondly,it can add more interesting things to communication and help the Chinese audiences to comprehend the American humor from a different aspect.Thirdly,it riches the theories of humor by violating the CP in the talk show programs.
文摘Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing the stories from different figures' visual angles.The novel features tragic content with comic form,anti-hero and illogical narrative structure.Catch-22,which no one can get out of,is not a simple rule;in other words,it's really a snare and this no-win situation exists in every corner of people's daily time.
文摘Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventeenth,eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.People believed or were led to believe that Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies were in clear opposition:Shakespeare’s comedies were sweet,romantic,amiable,popular and entertaining,whereas Jonson’s were based on an abstract theory of humors,cold,satiric,pedantic,and moralizing.Only in the last century did these oppositions begin to change,but too slowly.This paper calls those binary oppositions into question.It tries to present a more truthful picture of these two playwrights and their comedies through an examination of some of their works.It argues that some of those oppositions are stereotypes and should not be taken seriously by contemporary Shakespearean and Jonsonian scholars.
文摘Northrop Frye' s four narrative forms:romance,tragedy,irony,and comedy can help explain the problematic structure of Margaret Atwood' s novel Cat' s Eye,in which the narrative,as well as certain other literary features,indicates that it is essentially a come dy - a story of how a hero forms a desirable new society in the face of strong opposition.But this comedy is also ironic.
文摘Zhao Benshan's sketch comedies are full of humorous elements.But the studies of the mechanisms causing humor in these Chinese contexts are relatively rare in the pragmatic domain at home.This essay,appealing to several pragmatic theories—mainly cooperative principle and polite principle,aims to exemplify and explicate the underlying systems that make up the humorous language.
文摘We utilize data on comedy moviegoers from 18 cities in China to investigate the impact of the positive mood triggered by these movies on the stock returns of locally headquartered listed companies.We find that although these movies have no relation to investment itself,the sentiment triggered by these movies could affect the risk decision making of investors.Moreover,the stock returns of locally headquartered companies become significantly negative after comedy movies are screened in their respective cities.These results support the mood maintenance hypothesis.This research also provides new evidence for the presence of home bias in capital markets.
文摘By comparing Love Actually and Pretty Woman,the two representatives of romance comedy,it is not difficult to arrive at the conclusion that UK romance comedy is more realism while the other is more idealism.It more or less has something related to the different cultures and national characters between the US and the UK.
文摘Multidimensional Scale Evaluation Rules as a performer in the field of learning assessment is feasible, but for each dimension settings, level settings and value setting need to be developed according to the actual raters, object evaluation, the focus of the evaluation. Scores of overall dimensions use variance analysis, and the results show a significant difference. In sub-dimension score comparison, the high group and low group both got higher scores in the degree of difficulty performing works and read music accuracy. The high group and low group are different on dimensions of the lowest score. Total scores in the scale of multi-dimensional evaluation of rules are positively correlated on the scores on the improvising horizontal dimension, but the correlation is not very high level, that is not all students who is better in playing levels, and they can get higher scores on the improvising horizontal dimension. Using multi-dimensional scale scores and teacher direct evaluation rules score are significantly different for student achievement.
