AN ANALYSIS OF THE THEORY OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE REFLECTED IN ENGLISH HUMOROUS UTTERANCE BASED ON AMERICAN SITCOM FRIENDS 基于美国情景喜剧《老友记》中幽默语言的会话含义分析.docVIP

首都师范大学本科毕业论文 基于美国情景喜剧《老友记》中 幽默语言的会话含义分析 AN ANALYSIS OF THE THEORY OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE REFLECTED IN ENGLISH HUMOROUS UTTERANCE BASED ON AMERICAN SITCOM FRIENDS A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the English Education Department of College of Foreign Languages Capital Normal University April 2010 摘要 本文重点分析了英语幽默语言的会话含义。鉴于我国语言学界对英语幽默研究尚处于初级阶段，缺乏对幽默产生中的语用因素研究，本文在总结已有的幽默学理论基础上，以《老友记》中部分语境对话为例，从语用学视角来分析英语幽默产生的原因。重点分析了通过违反合作原则和礼貌原则而产生的幽默效果。其实用价值可指导人们认识产生幽默的语用因素，从而恰当地发挥语用能力，提高英语学习者热情并有助于教师改善教学方法及学习策略,提高跨文化交际的效率。 关键词: 幽默语言；会话含义；语用学；合作原则；礼貌原则；《老友记》 Abstract This paper discusses the theory of Conversational Implicature reflected in English humorous utterance. Due to the facts that humor researches in China conducted from the perspective of pragmatics remain scant and superficial, the research, which is based on examples from Friends, ventures on an attempt to analyze English humorous utterance from pragmatic perspective. There are three parts in this thesis. In the first part, a general literature review will be presented. Then the current methodology will be introduced briefly in the second part. In the last part, the cases collected from Friends will be analyzed and discussed to reach a conclusion. The main part of the paper is the detailed analyses on how humorous effects are achieved by the violation of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle, in the hope that it will be applied to help people realize the pragmatic aspect in humor production and improve the efficiency in EFL learning and cross-cultural communication. Key words: humorous utterance, Conversational Implicature, pragmatics, Cooperative Principle, Politeness Principle, Friends Contents 摘要----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ⅰ Abstract-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ⅱ List of Abbreviations-----------------------