美国情景喜剧《老友记》中言语幽默的综合分析.docVIP

A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbal Humor in the American Sitcom Friends 美国情景喜剧《老友记》中言语幽默的综合分析 Abstract Humor is collection and product of the high development of human language and wisdom. It’s also a requisite element of daily life, which brings us more than laugh. In our daily life, it plays an important role. It can make society more harmonious, reflect one`s wisdom and attitude towards life, resolve conflicts between people and so forth. However English humor has been ignored or misread for this or that reason, especially, in china. Firstly, Understanding humor is a serious business, Stuss says: You need the ability to make an inference; you also need the ability to have a self-awareness concept. Therefore， in order to learn and understand exactly what is verbal humor and how to apply it into practice, we should heighten our awareness of cross-cultural context and acquire more relevant cultural background knowledge. Taking the American popular situational comedy Friends as an example, this paper mainly describes verbal humor via visual, language and culture context approaches, including lines, body language and culture analysis, etc. These corpus make the analysis as “vulgar” as possible (meaning there should be “as direct a path as possible between observation of similarities and the consequences”)，which helps master the key of the theory in no time. Key word: Verbal Humor; American Sitcom; Friends; Approaches 摘要 幽默是人类语言与智慧迅速发展的产物和结晶。也是必不可少的生活元素，带给我们的也不仅仅是欢笑。幽默在我们的日常生活中起着举足轻重的作用。它能调节社会关系，折射出人们的智慧和人生态度，化解人与人之间的矛盾等等。然而，尤其是在中国，英语中的幽默，因为这样或那样的原因被国人所忽视或误读。斯特斯指出：“对幽默的理解其实是很严肃的问题，因为你首先需要具备理解暗示内容的能力，同时还需具有形成自我概念的能力，然后还需要把各种情绪反应正确地联结在一起。因此，为了更好更准确地学习和理解什么是言语幽默以及如何将其运用于生活实践中，我们需要对“跨文化语境”有充分认识，注意并掌握与其密切相关的文化背景知识。本文以美国经典情景喜剧《老友记》为例，主要通过视觉手段，语言手段，文化语境手段三大方面进行阐述，其中包括台词内容，身体语言，和文化的解析等。这些具体语料能使分析通俗易懂（即“相似性观察与结果的关系应一目了然”）,从而使理论的核心内容被迅速领会和掌握。 关键词：言语幽默；美国情景喜剧；老友记；运用手段 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Significance and purpose of Thesis 1 1.2 The structure of T