文档介绍：A Pragmatic Analysis of English Humor
摘�要�
幽默是人类日常生活的调味品也是人类言语必不可少的一部分它不仅在
多种社会交往中起着改善人际关系的作用而且已成为个人智慧魅力和教育的
象征一直以来幽默引起了许多领域中的学者的关注和兴趣对幽默的研究已
经从心理学生理学和哲学等传统研究领域扩展到人类学教育学美学社会
学等更加广阔的领域和新兴学科中随着语言学在理论上突飞猛进的发展�语用
学为幽默研究提供了更新的视角�
然而到目前为止从语用学角度对幽默语言进行的研究数量有限此外
它们大多数只是将语用学的某一个理论如合作原则应用于幽默研究本文基
于七个主流语用学理论对出现在英语会话中的言语幽默进行了较为全面的研
究�
通过在由合作原则礼貌原则面子理论关联理论指示语语用前提以
及言语行为理论等构筑的语用学理论框架中对大量的英语幽默语料的分析本文
探讨了幽默生成和理解的语用机制本文研究发现当合作原则和礼貌原则的准
则被违反当说话人和听话人的面子需要保护当指示的自我中心法则被违反并
由此产生指示映射现象当语用前提被取消或者当言语行为被误解时就有可
能产生幽默效果而关联理论则为部分英语幽默的阐释提供了有用的理论机制
言语幽默可以满足人们在心理情感社会和交际的需求对幽默的含义及
其发生机制的正确理解有助于我们进行有效的外语教学同时对社会和人际交往
也起到一定的推动作用
关键词英语幽默语用机制功能应用�
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A Pragmatic Analysis of English Humor
Abstract
Humor, specific to human beings, is the seasoning of our daily life and an
indispensable part of human speech. It not only plays an important role in the
improvement of the interpersonal relationships in social activities of many kinds, but
also es the symbol of personal wit, glamour and education. For a long time,
humor has attracted the attention and interest of scholars in many fields. The
researches can range from traditional fields such as psychology, physiology and
philosophy to broader ones such as anthropology, pedagogy, aesthetics, sociology, etc.
With the rapid development of linguistics, pragmatics provides a new perspective for
humor studies.
However, the researches made on the humorous language from a pragmatic point
of view paratively limited in sum. Besides, the majority of them just apply
one of pragmatic theories to the humor studies, for example, cooperative principle.
Based on the seven main-stream pragmatic theories, this thesis makes paratively
all-round research on the verbal humors occurring in English conversations.
Through the analysis of lots of examples of English humor within the framework
of pragmatic theories formed by cooperative principle, politeness principle, face
theory, relevance theory, deixis, presuppo