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学术英语学期论文 题 目： _________________(中文题目) 专业班级： 汉语言文学 121班 姓 名： 陈 彦 如 学 号： 1122510022 指导教师： 厉 芳 完成日期： 2013年12月 (英语题目，15号字体，居中对齐) The surprise effect of humor based on relevance theory WU Ya-ting (Dept of Foreign languages, Zhejiang University of Science Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China) Abstract: The core of humor lies in its surprise effect. With reference to relevance theory and cognitive context, this paper analyzes the cognitive essence of humor and its inference process as well. It argues that humor results from the contradiction between language use and its context; between speaker’s ostensiveness and hearer’s inference; and last but not least, it results from the contrast between the maximal relevance and the optimal relevance. The key to understanding humor is to choose a cognitive context that is of optimal relevance. Key words: surprise effect; context; relevance（Times New Roman, 12号字体，1.5倍行距） 1. Introduction （14号，黑体） In our daily life, we can commonly find a lot of signs such as “咨询处”, “凭票入场”, “禁止吸烟” , and so on, which show or direct the public what should or not do, or for further information. Signs like that can be classified as public signs. Public sign is a kind of text with such functions as directing, reminding, warning, noticing, persuading[1]. Nowadays, foreign people tend to flow over into China after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the World Expo, helping the development of globalization. As for the Chinese-English translation of public signs, dozens of scholars and translators both at home and abroad have discussed it from different perspective in recent years, centering on the types of public signs, including names of roads, institutions, shops, slogans,business signs, traffic and road signs names of expos and exhibitions, etc. Hangzhou, one of famous Chinese tourism cities, receives hundreds of thousand foreign tourists and foreign students e