摘要

幽默是人类社会的普遍现象。古今中外，对于这一现象的跨学科探讨从未停止过。幽默语言是人们日常生活中经常采用的一种艺术语言交际形式,它是成功交际的润滑剂、生活的调味品。国内外已经有很多学者从语用学各个方面的理论来研究幽默语言的形成。本文将立足于会话交流中的幽默话语，在国内外学者对合作原则的相关研究的基础上，通过对情景喜剧《爱情公寓》中人物间对话进行分析研究，分析合作原则与幽默的真实运用，包括社会对会话交谈中的合作原则的意识，使用的具体状况，交流者的反应态度等等，并进而发现当今我国国内合作原则与幽默研究在应用方面普遍存在的问题以及相应的解决方法。

关键词：幽默；合作原则；会话；爱情公寓

Abstract

Humor is a common phenomenon in human society. At all times and in all countries, the interdisciplinary study of this phenomenon has never stopped. The humorous language is often used by people in daily life. It is a kind of art language which can become the lubricants and condiments in our communication and daily life. There are many scholars at home or abroad who have studied the humorous language from various pragmatic theories. Based on scholars’ research at home and abroad, the present thesis analyzes conversational humor using the conversations in the sitcom of Ipartment from the perspective of cooperative principle, and gives corresponding solutions to the study of the cooperative principle and humor.

Key words: humor; cooperative principle; conversation; Ipartment

1．Introduction
1.1 Background
In 1967, Grice’s cooperative principle was first put forward in his speech at Harvard University. Thereafter, Horn (1984) and Levinson (1987) as the representatives of the pragmatic experts improved and summarized the theory constantly, which was established as a new theoretical system of interpretation of conversational behavior. And then Horn (1984) deepened and presented his Q (quantity) and R (relation) principles. Later, Levinson (1987) put forward three principles of “Neo-Gricean pragmatic apparatus”: Q-principle, I-principle and M-principle (qtd in Jin Li, 2005:11). Horn and Levinson's new principles emphasized the two-way of the communication, which means that the speaker and hearer hold different hypotheses in the expression and interpretation of speech act in the process. They are based on the cooperation, mutual information and the other hypotheses, thus achieving the interpretation of discourse.