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摘 要幽默是一种普遍而又特别重要的语言现象，生活中幽默无处不在。本文以美国九十年代最受观众欢迎的情景喜剧《成长的烦恼》为例，试图从幽默性言语和文化影响两个角度简单分析幽默的表现形式以及中美两个不同国家文化背景下观众对于幽默的不同理解。本文在对幽默进行一系列的介绍之后，选取了《成长的烦恼》中几段发生在家人朋友之间的日常幽默对话作为研究对象，从而以具体实例更好的解释幽默现象。24722
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Abstract Humor is a universal language phenomenon but is particularly important, which exists in daily life. The author will take the America audience sitcom Growing Pains for example, attempt to analyze the performance of humor from the aspects of the illocutionary acts and the reflection of culture as well as the different understanding of humor because of the two different cultural backgrounds countries between China and America. After introducing humor, the author will select a couple of daily humorous dialogues between families and friends in Growing Pains as the research object, so as to explain the phenomenon of humor better by using specific examples .
Key words: humor; the illocutionary acts; the reflection of culture
The Analysis of Conversational Humor in American Drama Series Growing Pains
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Definition, Classification and Function of Humor 2
2.1 The Definition of Humor 2
2.2 The Classification of Humor 4
2.3 The Functions of Humor 5
III. Introduction to American Drama Series Growing Pains 5
3.1 Characteristic and Aims of Sitcom 5
3.2 A Brief Introduction to Growing Pains 6
3.3 Classification of Humor in Growing Pains 7
IV. The Analysis of Humor in Growing Pains from the Illocutionary Acts and the Reflection of Culture 8
4.1 The Analysis of Humor in Growing Pains from the Illocutionary Acts 8
4.1.1 Solidarity 8
4.1.2 Aggression 9
4.1.3 Defense 11
4.2 The Analysis of Humor in Growing Pains from the Reflection of Culture 12
Ⅴ. Conclusion 14
Bibliography 15
Acknowledgements 15
I. Introduction
Sitcom is a comedy show in the form of an initial radio sitcom based on the form, and now basically appears in the background of power stage. Some will be accompanied to emphasize its humorous effect by laughter sitcoms. As a comedy, sitcom has already had a large audience, and attracts the attention of many researchers. Due to the reflection of the different influences between Oriental Confucianism and Western liberalism, there are some differences in sitcom-style humor. Today, the Chinese contemporary culture is undergoing the westernization to a certain extent. With the process of the globalization, we are increasingly walking into the era of consumer culture and the consumer culture is accepted by people, and luckily sitcom meets this trend. With consumer culture gradually accepted in China, sitcoms, as one of the forms of popular culture theater scene, attract more and more attention. By the way humor is a very special cultural phenomenon, which exists in every aspect of our lives. There are many differences about American sitcom under the different cultures, the author will take the humor of Growing Pains as an example.
Growing Pains, is a typical American sitcom. As an American family sitcom, it is related to a person who occurs in the home or place of residence or living near the scene. The first quarter has 22 episodes in all and lasts twenty-three minutes for every episode, which is full of interesting dialogues between the characters, hilarious. In this paper, the author respectively analyzes the humorous dialogue in Growing Pains from the humorous perspective and the cultural point of view, so that readers can understand the humor in different cultural backgrounds better.