语言模因视角下中国情景喜剧的言语幽默分析——以《武林外传》为例-analysis of verbal humor in chinese sitcom from the perspective of linguistic memes - taking.docxVIP

AbstractVerbal humor, as a charming language phenomenon, has drawn wide attention of many scholars in different disciplines like psychology, physiology, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics etc. Sitcom, as a main artistic form of conveying humor, is very popular with the audiences. Until now, numerous studies of verbal humor in sitcoms have been conducted from the perspective of stylistics, receptive aesthetics, pragmatics etc. Most studies are confined to the textual characteristics and functions of verbal humor in sitcoms, but the generation mechanism of verbal humor has not been expounded profoundly. However, the exploration of generation mechanism of verbal humor is of great importance to enhance artistic techniques of sitcoms as well as the audiences’ artistic appreciation. Therefore, the thesis attempts to analyze the dynamic generation mechanism of verbal humor in terms of the speaker and the hearer from the perspective of language meme by taking My Own Swordsman (representative of the climax of Chinese sitcom) as the data source. Moreover, the thesis also puts forward some strategies to create humorous lines.The humorous utterances of My Own Swordsman discussed and recommended by the net citizens in Bai Du and Google are marked, from which 190 classical humorous utterances are picked out. Among 190 humorous utterances, 131 ones containing language meme are chosen as the data source. Through detailed analysis of 131 humorous utterances in My Own Swordsman, the thesis has attained findings as follows:The language memes in humorous utterances of My Own Swordsman possess two features. One feature lies in their vitality. These language memes are not only familiar to the audiences in terms of form and content but also in accordance with the audiences’ psychological needs and social cultural background. The other is the feature of variability. In order to realize the intention of amusing the audiences, the speaker often adapts the language meme according to the ru