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PAGE Analysis of the Humor Language in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties the CP-Violation and Humor Effects Acknowledgements I shall first present my thanks to all the teachers in the Foreign Language School of University of Science and Technology, Liaoning, to whom I owe much of my knowledge in my study of English language and linguistics. Then I would like to thank Ms Guo Liping, who has given us lectures on linguistics. My heartfelt gratitude also goes to my tutor, Ms Zhang Jingwei, whose invaluable instructions, perceptive suggestions, great patience and constant encouragement have helped greatly to shape this thesis. Contents TOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u Abstract (English) i Abstract (Chinese) iii Introduction 1 I. Grice’s cooperative principle 2 A. Maxim of Quantity 3 B. Maxim of Quality 3 C. Maxim of Relation 3 D. Maxim of Manner 3 II. Violation of the Cooperative Principle and the Humor Effects 4 A. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Quantity 4 1. The Speaker contributes less information than is required 5 2. The Speaker contribute more information than is required 6 B. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Quality 6 1. The Speaker say something false on purpose 6 2. Using rhetoric to express conversational implicatures 8 C. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Relation 10 D. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Manner 11 1. To break the brief rule by verbose expressions 12 2. To create ambiguity 12 3. To break the ordinance rules 13 III. Tips for Creating Humors in Daily Communication 14 A. To Create Suspense 14 B. To Indulge in Verbiage 15 C. To Find the Ironical phenomenon in life 15 D. To Use rhetoric in conversation 16 Conclusion 16 Bibliography 18 Graduation Thesis of University of Science and Technology，Liaoning Lu PAGE 7 Abstract As the society develops increasingly fast in modern days, life competition and pressures fo