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On Humor Interpretation from A Cognitive-pragmatic Perspective: A Corpus-based Study

Author: WangYan
Tutor: LiaoQiaoYun
School: Sichuan International Studies University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Humor Idealized cognitive model Adjacent similar Rhetorical Melodrama
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


Humor everywhere, humor phenomenon intricate. A long and rich history of humor. , Humor has won its unique features extensive attention of scholars in various fields at home and abroad, the endless research scholars from various countries in the formation of the humor, the nature, characteristics, etc., further expanding the humor. Nevertheless, cognitive Pragmatic Perspective on humor research such as relevance theory, cognitive domain theory, there are still a lot of inadequacies worth perfect. In this paper, based on the theory of idealized cognitive model and the conventional relationship between adjacent / similar principle, by traditional rhetorical attempt to propose an extension of the theory of idealized cognitive model framework, through the combination of all three points to find the humor effect behind cognitive mechanisms. Any elected in the first quarter of the U.S. television sitcom \classification analysis. This paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Introduction This article topics reason, research purposes, analytical methods, structural layout. The second chapter \Chapter theoretical framework, based on the inadequacies of past studies and analysis of idealized cognitive model proposed in this paper extended the ICM theoretical framework, which combines adjacent to similar principles and cognitive rhetorical devices, and under the framework of the case analysis. Chapter corpus analysis, the use of the above theoretical framework of the eight-episode sitcom screenplay closed corpus analysis, parse through the data and the proportion of genetic classification of humorous effects. Emphatically revealed the formation mechanism of humor in the new ICM framework. The fifth chapter, \This study shows that: First, in conventional relations, mainly contains a variety of rhetorical) adjacent or similar principle (discourse contrary to the original cognitive model to derive humor effect. Second, from a newer cognitive language with angle, extended the theoretical framework, the rhetorical complementary adjacent similar principle included in the analysis framework, adding new elements to some extent for the awareness of the language. Third, by the closed corpus analysis, relatively objective data to explore the underlying causes of Humor, internally generated mechanisms humorous effect, to some extent, extended cognitive and pragmatic point of integration, strengthening of the language explanation of the phenomenon of force.

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