英语幽默的语用研究

摘要英语幽默是诙谐而含蓄的。但是对于母语不是英语的人来说，完全理解英语幽默是不容易的。为了帮助读者更好地理解英语幽默，本篇论文从语用学角度对英语幽默进行了分析。本文选取了一些英语小幽默，从合作原则、指示语、关联理论、言语行为理论和前提理论几个角度进行分析。9925
关键词英语幽默   语用学   合作原则   指示语   关联理论   言语行为   前提
毕业论文外文摘要
Title   Pragmatic Analysis of English Humor
Abstract
English jokes are humorous and implicit. However, for people whose mother language is not English, it’s hard to completely understand English humor. This paper presents a pragmatic analysis of English humor in order to help the reader get a better understanding of English humor. Some examples of English humor are analyzed in relation to cooperative principle, deixis, relevance theory, speech act theory, and presupposition.
Keywords English humor   pragmatics   cooperative principle   deixis   relevance theory   Speech act   presupposition
Table of Contents
1 Introduction   1
2 Pragmatic Theories   1
2.1 The Cooperative Principle   1
2.2 Deixis   3
2.3 Relevance Theory   4
2.4 Speech Act Theory   5
2.5 Presupposition   6
3 Research Design   6
4 Pragmatic Analysis of English Humor   7
4.1 Cooperative Principle and Humor   7
4.1.1 Violation of Maxim of Quantity.   7
4.1.2 Violation of Maxim of Quality.   8
4.1.3 Violation of Maxim of Relation   8
4.1.4 Violation of Maxim of Manner   9
4.2 Deixis and Humor   9
4.3 Relevance Theory and Humor   10
4.4 Speech Act Theory and Humor   11
4.5 Presupposition and humor   11
Conclusion   13
Acknowledgements   14
Bibliography   15
1 Introduction:
Humorous language is a very common linguistic phenomenon in our daily life, which usually refers to those uncoordinated, ridiculous and amusing words. It’s easy for us to understand Chinese humor stories, but when it comes to English ones, we may find it difficulty to understand some of them. Therefore, in order to enjoy English humor more, we have to learn how English humor amuses and how pragmatic knowledge is used in it. In this paper, I will analyze English humor by using five pragmatic theories: cooperative principle, deixis, relevance theory, speech act theory, and presupposition. We will take some short and easy English humor stories as examples and analyze them with the theories listed above.
2 Pragmatic Theories
English humor has been studied by many scholars from different aspects for many years, and among them the pragmatic analysis is of high popularity. Those predecessors almost use three categories of theories in their analysis overall: cooperative principle, relevance theory, and speech act theory. However, these are not all the pragmatic theories that we can use to analyze English humor. We can also study English humor from other important aspects such as deixis and presupposition.
2.1 The Cooperative Principle
A basic underlying assumption we make when we speak to one another is that we are trying to cooperate with one another to construct meaningful conversations. This assumption is known as the Cooperative Principle. As stated in H. P. Grice’s Logic and Conversation (1975). English humor is produced as a result of violation of cooperative principle (He Ziran, 1995: 23-27). 英语幽默的语用研究:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_8811.html