英语专业美国情景喜剧《老友记》中幽默的语用分析.docVIP

Pragmatic Analysis on the Humor of the American Situation Comedy Friends Abstract: Humor is a kind of essential sauce to peoples life. Firstly this thesis puts forward the concept of humor, and briefly illustration of pragmatic theories will be involved in the thesis. Then it analyses some of humorous lines from “Friends” as examples combined with pragmatic theories. Through comprehensive summary and analysis, it aims at guiding students to grasp related pragmatic theories in English study correctly and improving English learners’ comprehension to English humor. Key words: Friends; Humor; Relevance Theory; Cooperative Principle; Face-saving Theory 美国情景喜剧《老友记》中幽默的语用分析 摘 要：幽默是人们生活中必不可少的一种调味料，本论文首先提出幽默的概念及将要涉及的语用学理论，并简单阐述，再以美国著名情景喜剧《老友记》中的部分幽默台词为例结合理论进行分析，通过全面地归纳和分析，本文旨在正确指导英语学习中对相关语用理论的掌握，从而更好地学习和运用英语，提高英语学习者对英语幽默的理解。 关键词：老友记；幽默；关联理论；合作原则；面子理论 Contents Introduction 1 Brief introduction of Friends 1.1 Essential information 1.2 Bare bones of plot 1.3 Lingual characteristic 2 Definition of humor 3 Related pragmatic theory 3.1 Relevance Theory 3.2 Cooperative Principle 3.3 Face-saving Theory 4 Analysis of the lines 4.1 Relevance Theory 4.1.1 Pun 4.1.2 Idiom 4.2 Cooperative Principle 4.2.1 Irony 4.3 Face-saving Theory Conclusion Notes Bibliography Pragmatic Analysis on the Humor of the American Situation Comedy Friends Introduction Humor can release the mental pressure, adjust the relationship among people, also can defend the psychological injury. F. Kohl once said “the American would rather to acknowledge committed the treason, the murder, the arson, to install the artificial tooth, to wear the wig, even would not rather to acknowledge their sense of humor is deficient[??”. The American situation comedy Friends made the glorious viewing rate and obtained the high praise of global audience, also can explain that the American paid attention to the sense of humor continuously. This situation comedy telecasted 10 years and still be pop