An Analysis of Humorous Instructor Discourse from the Perspective of Pragmatics_英语论文

摘要

每位教师都希望提高自身的教学效果，而将幽默引进课堂不失为一个提高教学效果的好方法，因为幽默能够拉近老师与学生间的距离，并且能够调节课堂气氛。国内外学者一直热衷于对幽默的研究，很多学者从系统功能语法，语义学，模因论和修辞学等角度来分析幽默。近年来，从语用学的角度研究幽默的学者也越来越多。本文选择了语用学的合作原则和礼貌原则来分析教师幽默话语。通过语用分析作者发现教师在课堂上有意或无意违反合作原则或礼貌原则可以产生幽默。本文有利于教师理解在教学过程中幽默的重要作用并启发教师将幽默运用到实际的教学中，从而提高教学效果。

关键词：教师幽默话语  语用分析  合作原则  礼貌原则   

Abstract

All instructors attach importance to improving the teaching effect of class. Introducing humor into class is a good method to improve the teaching effect in that humor has important functions such as shortening the distance and activating the atmosphere of class in the communication between teacher and students. Many researchers have great interest in analyzing humor from the perspectives of systemic functional grammar, semantics, memetics, rhetoric, etc. Nevertheless, more and more scholars also use pragmatics to study humor. This thesis chooses the cooperative principle and politeness principle to analyze some humorous instructor discourses selected from the Internet. Based on the analysis of the pragmatics, it can be found that humor is produced by the violation of the cooperative principle or the politeness principle intentionally or unintentionally. In addition, the study is propitious for instructors to understand the important functions of humor in the teaching process and to use humor in the real teaching situation.

Key words: humorous instructor discourse  pragmatic analysis  cooperative principle  politeness principle

Contents

Chapter One  Introduction 1

1.1  Background of This Thesis1

1.2   Objectives and Significance of This Thesis2

1.3   Research Methodology2

1.4   Organization of This Thesis3

Chapter Two  Literature Review4

2.1   Introduction.4

2.2   Previous Studies on Humor4

2.3   Previous Pragmatics Analysis of Humor6

2.4  Comment7

Chapter Three  Theoretical Framework8

3.1  Introduction.8

3.2  The Cooperative Principle.8

3.3  The Politeness Principle11

Chapter Four  Analysis of Humorous Instructor Discourse From the Pragmatic Perspective.16

4.1  The Cooperative Principle and Humor.16

4.1.1 Humor Generated by Maxim of Quantity16

4.1.2 Humor Generated by Maxim of Quality.17

4.1.3 Humor Generated by Maxim of Relation.18

4.1.4 Humor Generated by Maxim of Manner20

4.2  The Politeness Principle and Humor.21

4.2.1 Humor Generated by Maxim of Tact21

4.2.2 Humor Generated by Maxim of Generosity.22

4.2.3 Humor Generated by Maxim of Approbation.24

4.2.4 Humor Generated by Maxim of Modesty.25

4.2.5 Humor Generated by Maxim of Agreement.25

4.2.6 Humor Generated by Maxim of Sympathy.26

4.3  Summary.27

Chapter Five  Conclusion28

5.1  Major Findings of the Thesis28

5.2  Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research29

Bibliography

Acknowledgements