基于关联整合模式的言语幽默分析-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Abstr Abstract Abstr Abstract 山西师 山西师范大学学位论文 i i PAGE PAGE iv Title：Relevance-Blending Model-based Analysis of Verbal Humor Major：Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Name：Li Jing Signature： Supervisor： Kang Junying Signature： Abstract According to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1996:295), the definition of humor is the mental faculty of discovering, expressing or appreciating the ridiculousness or absurd incongruity, which can be found everywhere in human life. As a distinct and representative means of expression, it is undeniable that humor performs a significant role in verbal communication. The scholars in physiological, psychological, sociological research fields have explored humor. However, they fail to explicate the dynamical cognitive process and mechanism. The systematically linguistic study on humor sprang up in 1985 with the publication Semantic Mechanisms of Humor written by Raskin. Relevance Theory proposed by Sperber Wilson (1986), which expounds the guiding principle for communication, is the theoretical foundation for humor research at home and abroad. But Relevance Theory is considered to be too general to reveal the dynamic process and mechanism of humor. Nevertheless, Conceptual Blending Theory has attracted much attention because of its strong explanatory power in recent years. Conceptual Blending Theory can use the mapping and blending among mental spaces to present the dynamic process of humor comprehension. Hence, we can conclude Relevance Theory plays the part of integrated optimization and Conceptual Blending Theory plays the role of local optimization. Thus, we can find a relatively reasonable cognitive-pragmatic analytical model for verbal humor by integrating Relevance Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory. Based on the two cognitive-pragmatic inference theories and the previous related researches, the thesis tentatively proposes a new Relevance-Blending model to study the dynamic cognitive mechanism behind