文档介绍：中南民族大学
硕士学位论文
中美情景喜剧幽默对白的语用学分析——以《家有儿女》和《
成长的烦恼》为例
姓名:苏莉杰
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:外国语言学及应用语言学
指导教师:许菊
20090501
A Pragmatic Analysis of Verbal Humors in Chinese and American s
Abstract
Humor is “something causing you to smile or laugh” or “the quality of causing
such amusement”. It is a popular pragmatic phenomenon because it can fulfill a lot of
psychological, affective, cognitive, social or aesthetic functions. Humor has
constantly been a hot topic in philosophical and linguistic fields. Among the western
classical humor theories, superiority theory, relief theory and incongruity theory are
the most typical ones, which interpret humor respectively in terms of the relative
status between the humorist and the subject being laughed at, the
psychological-affective function of humor, and the cause of humor creation. In China,
Lin Yutang was one of pioneers in the field of humor studies. Many more recent
researches have studied humor from linguistic, rhetorical and pragmatic perspectives.
(short for edy) is a humorous drama based on the situation
that might arise in everyday life. To make the audience laugh is one of the most
essential ingredients and the ultimate goal of s. Nowadays has been
established as a ic literary genre and part of the staple diet of mainstream
television entertainment around the world. Among the American and Chinese s,
Growing Pains and Home with Kids are the most popular ones, both of which are
developed in a family setting with loving parents and lovely kids of different
characters. is a relatively new literary and television genre, so its researches
are relatively rare, especially those done from pragmatic perspective.
Based on the previous researches, the present study makes a tentative exploration
into the underlying mechanisms of the verbal humor presented in Chinese and
American s Home with Kids and Growing Pains, within the framework of two
pragmatic theories, namely, Grice’s Coo