英语本科毕业设计（论文）-从语用学角度看英语会话中幽默的产生.doc

三 江 学 院 本科生毕业设计（论文） 题 目 从语用学角度看英语会话中幽默的产生 英语 系 英语 专业 学生姓名 学号 指导教师 职称 讲师 起讫日期 2010.12-2011.5 设计地点 第二教学楼 PAGE I Acknowledgements This thesis concludes my English learning of over one decade. I would like to thank all my previous teachers, especially those in Sanjiang University who taught me Intensive Reading, to who I owe much of my knowledge in English language, translation, literature, and especially, in linguistics. My heartfelt gratitude goes to my adviser, Ms Lee, whose enlightening instruction, invaluable suggestion and patient encouragement have helped greatly to shape this thesis. Thanks are also extended to my boss Xun Jinbiao as well as my colleagues— Abstract Humor, an act of utterance, plays a significant role in daily life—it can amuse addressee, adjust atmosphere, and improve interpersonal relationship with presenting speaker’s intelligence and charm. As a phenomenon of language, humor draws a lot of attention in the field of linguistics. The production of humor does not exist independently because there is close relationship between itself and rules of language. Hence, this paper analyzes the production of humor from two important theories in pragmatics, the Cooperative Principle and Presupposition. And it finally gets a summary that many humorous effects is generated by violating the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle (Relation, Quantity, Quality and Manner) and the three characters of Presupposition (Mutual knowledge, Appropriateness and Defeasibility) through analyzing a series of humorous conversations. All in all, it is exactly an effective way to analyze humor from the Cooperative Principle and Presupposition, and they two really have made great contributions to analyzing the existence of humor. Practically, with these two theories, pe