从合作角度对《破产姐妹》中的言语幽默的分析_英语论文

English title: An Analysis of verbal Humor in Two broken girls from the perspective of cooperative principle

摘要

幽默是一种常见的交际方式，是一种以言致笑的言语行为，美国情景喜剧《破产姐妹》充满了言语幽默。本文将运用Koestler的言语幽默理论和Grice的合作理论及其四条准则，对《破产姐妹》中的言语幽默进行了讨论。该剧中言语幽默产生的原因是因不同原因，如为了释放压力、避免或缓解尴尬场景、保住面子等等而故意或无意违背合作原则及其四条准则所致，由此，幽默也就产生了。本论文将研究破产姐妹中的幽默对话以期对幽默的产生有一个更为清楚认识，同时，对幽默做更进一步的研究。

关键词：《破产姐妹》； 言语幽默； 合作原则； 幽默原因； 幽默效果

Abstract

Humor is a common way of communication and it is a kind of speech act which people use speech to cause laugh. The Two Broken Girls is a popular sitcome in America which is full of verbal humor. This paper will use general framework of cooperative principle, which was put forward by Herbert Poul Geice, to analyse the humorous conversations in Two Broken Girls. People in Two Broken Girls sometimes break cooperative principle intentionally or unintentionally for different reasons, such as for releasing pressure, avoiding or assuaging awkward scene, saving face and so on. And in this way, humor is generated. This paper will research humorous conversation in Two Broken Girls to get a clearer idea of how humor is generated and to get a further study of humor at the same time.

Key words: Two Broken Girls, verbal humor, cooperative principle， reasons for humor, humorous effects