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 se...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).展开更多
Some examples of flouting Cooperative Principle (CP) in Chinese people's greeting, requesting, and accepting compliment are presented and the cultural reasons for these violations are explained in this article. By...Some examples of flouting Cooperative Principle (CP) in Chinese people's greeting, requesting, and accepting compliment are presented and the cultural reasons for these violations are explained in this article. By analyzing the Chinese way of flouting CP, the author explores the unique characteristics of CP in Chinese context.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
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 analy...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.展开更多
文摘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).
文摘Some examples of flouting Cooperative Principle (CP) in Chinese people's greeting, requesting, and accepting compliment are presented and the cultural reasons for these violations are explained in this article. By analyzing the Chinese way of flouting CP, the author explores the unique characteristics of CP in Chinese context.
文摘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.
文摘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.
