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New Grice humor Theory of Meaning

Author: HuLiang
Tutor: ZhaoHongLu
School: Changchun University of
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Humor Conversational implicature New Grice theory Friends
CLC: H030
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Humor is a universal human phenomenon, is a special manifestation of emotions; it is not only a quality show, but the cleverness of performance. It comes from life and beyond life, there have been numerous scholars to study it. Humour can be divided into many, but it boils down, it is the daily life of the factors that can make people laugh. So far, no definition still satisfy the needs of humor. This paper uses a broad definition of humor, that is: all funny, amusing, funny humor can be called. Humor, often in the form of conversation, and was called the verbal humor. In a real scenario, people often understand the meaning of the session bias dislocation, thus generating pragmatic factors constitute an important reason for humor. We often see in Pragmatic Analysis humorous conversation, showing humor and pragmatics has a very close relationship. In recent years, semantics, pragmatics, intercultural communication and other basic theory of the rapid rise of subjects for further study of humor provides a wider angle of view and update. In essence, humor is highly pragmatic realization of the session. Pragmatics mainly by deixis, conversational implicature, presupposition, speech acts and the associated theoretical composition. In recent years, many scholars have put a lot of effort to the session pragmatics meaning as a basis for research humor, there are many scholars from the perspective of the principles of cooperation were explored humor. For example: Raskin and Attardo found a violation of the principles of cooperation will produce guidelines for humor. But most achievements, particularly aspects of pragmatics, is still relatively simple and deprivation. Therefore, this trial from the U.S. sitcom \This article gives verbal humor study provides a new direction for a new theory of Grice. The authors proposed a new theory of Grice, namely: Leech rhetorical pragmatic inference model, Levinson's session meaning three principles and Sperber Wilson's relevance theory, to produce on the verbal humor and understanding for analysis. This paper adopts quantitative analysis, with \In cross-cultural communication, since people from different cultural backgrounds often have different lifestyles, ways of thinking, customs, habits, rituals and other issues, they would often fail to understand the phenomenon of verbal humor. Because of the American culture some cultures do not understand a particular concept, Chinese people often do not understand the U.S. sitcom due to express humor and missed the fun surprises, followed by a failure to understand the humor. How can we avoid the understanding of humor failure? On this issue, the article by a certain amount of corpus analysis, with particular cultural context Context Theory sitcom humor on the effect of generating and understanding were explained. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, this thesis is divided into four chapters explain: The first chapter is literature review. The author first reviews the previous traditional theory about humor and research results, and the three traditional theories: excellent theory, theory and inconsistent release theory to describe the theoretical basis for the text; also elaborated humorous origin, domestic and foreign research situation and the development of the theory of humor, and finally describes the current development of the modern theory of humor. The second chapter is the theoretical framework and research methods. I first Grice theory on the origin, development and its contents are described and listed in detail Grice theoretical deficiencies. On this basis, linguists through various efforts, research reveals a new theory of Grice meaning, but also elaborate on one of the most influential of the three theories, namely: Leech rhetorical pragmatic inference model, Levinson's conversational implicature three principles and Sperber Wilson's relevance theory. And described the methods of this thesis. The third chapter is the main part of the paper. This chapter focuses on the analysis of instances of verbal humor and conduct research summarized. First, the three principles for breaches Levison humor arising from analysis of the meaning of the session, with the example of France proved a powerful conversational implicature explanatory power. Secondly, contrary to the rhetoric Leech pragmatic inference model for example arising from analysis of humor. Finally, the resulting breach of relevance theory meaning of the conversation humor. The fourth chapter is humor inspiration. In this chapter, the author mainly Intercultural Communication and English from the perspective of teaching research to clarify the practical value of verbal humor. Intercultural communication with the cultural values ??and religious aspects combine explains humor in the importance of cultural exchange and learning. The authors also pointed out the limitations of the paper and further research possibilities. In the concluding section summarizes the basis of the full text, emphasizing the humor in communication social functions. This thesis is based on the new Grice theory, the humor was attempted sexual exploration. Sincerely hope to develop this area better, get more attention play a role in promoting and improving English learners' understanding of American sitcom humor. Thereby strengthening cultural exchanges between China and the U.S. to promote the humor in real-life applications.

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