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.

An Analysis of the Verbal Humor in the Movies If You Are The One Ⅰ&Ⅱ from the Perspective of Pragmatics

This study analyzes the the verbal humor in the movie series If You Are The One from the perspective of some pragmatic theories.The findings of the study provide explanations towards generative mechanism of humor,such as the violation of Cooperative Principle,avoiding face-threatening acts,and particularly,creatively reveal that special use of Politeness Principle can produce a humourous effect,too.

Semantic Perspective:Verbal Humor in Chinese Cross Talk

This paper aims to study the verbal humor in Guo Degang's cross talk from semantic perspective.The focus is to illustrate the generating process and the mechanism of verbal humor.Three aspects of semantics which produce humorous effect,morpheme absorption,ambiguity,and script opposition will be discussed.Finally,it is found out that script opposition can take place of morpheme absorption,ambiguity to explain how humor is caused fundamentally.

Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and Western Verbal Humor

Verbal humors are indispensable parts of culture. Researchers have analyzed the differences from cross-cultural perspective, few have considered their similarities. This thesis analyzes the similarities between Chinese and Western verbal humors from the fuzzy speech, fuzzy meaning, fuzzy sentence semantics and further compares differences regarding topics, objects, expressing styles and occasions. From these perspectives, this thesis explores the culture reasons from attitudes towards hierarchy and life philosophies. Thus, the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western verbal humors can promote the understanding of the other culture, as well as improve the cross-cultural awareness for effective communication.

An Analysis of Verbal Humor in the Dialogues of the American Sitcom The Big Bang Theory from the Perspective of Relevance Theory

Abstract:Humor,as an art of language,reflects the wisdom of the speaker and positive attitude towards life,and brings joy to both speaker and listener.Based on relevance theory of Sperber and Wilson,this paper analyzes the verbal humor in the Dialogues of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics,selects 5 specific cases of verbal humor to probe into its generation process and expression effects.The research is significant to the discovery of humor,application of relevance theory and research in pragmatics.It studies the generation process and expression effect to help people better understand humor in daily life,improve the ability of applying humor and feel the artistic charm of language.Meanwhile,the research provides a latest corpus to help English lovers and learners with their English language proficiency.

A Study of Verbal Humor of Undergraduates from the Perspective of Co⁃operative Principle and Relevance Theory

Verbal humor has been widely studied from the perspective of the Cooperative Principle.The verbal humor of undergrad⁃uates,however,hasn’t been studied thoroughly.Corpus of verbal humor of undergraduates will be analyzed from the perspective of the Cooperative Principle and Relevance Theory.The analyses show that the pragmatic analysis of the verbal humor of the under⁃graduates can reveal humorous effects,which play an important role in their daily communication.

Cultural Context and Appreciation to Obama's Verbal Humor

This paper aims to explain the restraint exerted by the deep structure of culture,such as history,religion,social convention and family,in understanding and appreciating foreign verbal humor,especially foreign statesman's verbal humor;whereby the significance of the deep structure of culture is revealed.In this paper,Herbert Paul Grice's Conversational Implicature Theory,i.e.the violation of cooperative principle,is taken as the theoretic base;the deep structure of culture is the analytical background and some of Obama's remarks and speeches given informal occasions are taken as analyzed examples,from which the essential role of the deep structure of culture is emphasized and focused in cross-cultural communication.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Verbal Humor in Friends

Friends is a very popular sitcom in America and even in China for its great humor, especially for its verbal humor. In order to understand the American humor better, the author tries to find out and appreciate the verbal humor in the framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle and John Austin's Speech Act Theory. By this, the paper helps to grasp the wise humor in Friends and convince people of the strength and operability of Cooperative Principle as well as Speech Act Theory.

A Cognitive Interpretation of Verbal Humor

In this paper,verbal humor is interpretated from the appreciator's perspective of cognitive linguistics,precisely,the combination of Relevance Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory,which is a relatively new model,in hope to better understanding verbal humor.

A Research on Translation of Verbal Humor from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence——A Case Study of Brothers

As the unique heritage of culture,humor has its own characteristics.Whether the translation of verbal humor can convey the original culture accurately is vital.In this thesis,the author will make a study on the translation of verbal humor in Yu Hua 's novel Brothers from the perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory,which examines whether the translation version reproduces the style of the original text accurately and adequately.

English Humor as a Polite Strategy in Verbal Communication

Based on the theory of polite strategies,the writer proposes that verbal humor is a important polite strategy which occurs frequently in conversation exchanges of human communication.Case study adopted to reveal the pragmatic function of humorous utterance in real communications as positive,negative,indirect and self-polite strategies.

预设理论与美国总统言语幽默的生成机制研究

言语幽默是一种语言艺术,也是一种重要的交际策略,体现着一个人的学识、态度与智慧。美国总统经常采用言语幽默策略,实现各种交际意图。预设是话说人假定存在的信息,而且这种信息可以得到听话人的认可,是交际的前提。研究从预设的性质以及预设的种类两个角度,阐释美国总统言语幽默的生成机制,增强对言语幽默的理论认知,提高人们使用言语幽默策略的意识。

浅析言语幽默的维护面子功能

幽默 ,作为一种特殊的言语交际方式 ,应当同面子联系起来研究。本文着重探讨人们在交际中是如何运用言语幽默来维护交谈双方面子的。文章从说话人和听话人两个角度对这一问题进行阐述。

溯因推理对幽默的解读

溯因推理是从已知结果推断其原因的一种思维方式，有别于演绎推理和归纳推理。它被深入地应用于诸多重要领域。但它在语言研究方面的应用还起步不久。言语理解是一个建立假设、论证假设的推理过程，溯因推理在建立假设阶段起着至关重要的作用。言语幽默的理解过程也是如此。所不同的是，在言语幽默中，由于交际者各自不同的背景知识和认知能力，根据溯因推理会建立不同的假设并通过演绎推理得出不同的结论，而不同结论的冲突使幽默得以产生。对言语幽默进行溯因推理解读的研究可以深化我们对一般语言交际的研究。

关联理论对幽默话语的认知解读

本文运用关联理论，从认知语言学角度对幽默的生成机制进行探讨。作者指出，在会话语境中，关联期待图式的被打破／或激活产生了幽默，此即幽默产生的认知机制。同时，作者分别就关联期待图式被打破／或激活的三种因素进行了深入的分析。

认知语言学视域下的幽默言语心理机制解读

幽默言语是人类日常话语中经常出现的一种语言交际形式,对幽默语言研究的历史可谓源远流长。了解幽默言语的认知心理过程可以帮助读者正确、完整并且深刻地理解幽默话语的内涵。本研究在认知语言学的大框架里,以幽默语义脚本理论为基础,结合关联理论和概念整合理论对幽默言语的生成及解读过程中的心理机制进行了探讨。

顺应论语境观与言语幽默的解读

言语幽默本质上是一种语言的使用现象,幽默效果的实现取决于语境。维索尔伦提出的顺应论语境观认为语言现象的理解必须顺应言语语境和交际语境,从而达到全面解读语言现象。顺应论语境观更强调从认知、心理和社会的角度全方位地理解语言的使用,因而对言语幽默具有更强的解释力。

言语幽默生成机制的认知研究——概念合成理论和背离与常规理论的互补性研究

概念合成理论是一种意义构建的理论,是意义构建的普遍模式,对语言具有强大的解释力。但在幽默言语的解读中,概念合成理论却显示出了其局限性,它无法对幽默效果产生的条件作一个令人了然的阐释;而Veatch的背离与常规理论却恰能弥补其不足,因此,在概念合成理论"四空间"模式的基础上,作者提出了一个新的幽默言语解读模式。

英语言语幽默的语用认知赏析——以关联理论与不和谐—消解理论为视角

言语幽默这种特殊的交际形式在人际交往中起着重要的作用。本文在简述幽默和幽默的不和谐—消解理论的基础上,在关联理论的框架下,从交际意图、语境效果及认知环境角度探讨了英语言语幽默的赏析,试图对确定英语言语幽默赏析的框架作点有益尝试。

幽默言语解读的在线认知机制阐释

文章以概念合成理论为基点 ,考察幽默言语解读过程中的在线认知机制 ,并借此探讨概念合成理论可资借鉴以及需要充实的内容 ,指出幽默言语的解读还牵涉到空间对接、空间冲突、空间转接和空间核实等认知过程 ,同时强调 。