《爱情公寓》中言语幽默的语用学探析外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Ab Abstract II II Abstract As a special kind of charming language phenomenon, humor has attracted attention of numerous scholars from various fields ranging from philosophy, anthropology, sociology to linguistics since ancient times. Sitcom, with its humor-oriented feature, also enjoys great popularity among scholars. In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have conducted pragmatic studies on humor in sitcoms, which mainly focus on American sitcoms. While the majority of the rare pragmatic studies on humor in Chinese sitcoms tend to employ Adaptation Theory as theoretical support, but seldom mention other pragmatic theories. Therefore, to enrich pragmatic studies on humor in Chinese sitcoms, it is es sential to involve more relevant theories. This thesis aims to carry out a pragmatic analysis on verbal humor in Ipartment, one of the most popular Chinese sitcoms, with CP (Cooperative Principle) and PP (Politeness Principle), another two influential pragmatic theories, so as to figure out the features of humorous utterances and help the audience to have a better understanding and appreciation of the humorous elements in this sitcom. The research methods and procedures are as follows: first of all, the related theoretical knowledge of CP and PP is introduced, providing theoretical foundation for the present study. Then, all the humor cases produced by employing CP and PP are selected with qualitative analysis. Altogether, 776 cases are collected. In additio n, the frequency distribution of the two theories and their maxims is explored with both quantitative and qualitative approaches. At last, some typical conversations are analyzed to show how CP and PP are adopted to produce humor and elicit laugh among audience. With the above analysis, the following findings can be concluded: 1) CP is III III more frequently utilized than PP in producing verbal humor in Ipartment. 2) The frequency of CP applied in this sitcom presents a gradual rising trend from the firs