摘要

近年来美剧深受广大英语爱好者的喜爱，尤其是情景喜剧，在愉悦了身心的同时，观众还能学到英语国家的文化及纯正的英语表达方式。《生活大爆炸》是近年来一部非常受欢迎的情景喜剧，其中的幽默对话常常使人捧腹。然而，许多母语不为英语的观众很难捕捉笑点，理解其中的幽默话语。因此，对美国情景喜剧的研究，特别是从语用学角度的研究不仅能使观众深入理解其幽默的产生机制，也能为致力于编写情景喜剧剧本的创作者提供理论指导。格莱斯的合作原则是当代语用学中一个非常重要的分支，它在解释幽默的产生机制中起着重要作用。
本文首先介绍合作原则理论及相关概念，其次简述违反合作原则与幽默的关系，分析在《生活大爆炸》中当剧中角色故意违反合作原则的质量准则、数量准则、关联准则、方式准则时所产生的幽默会话含义，并对研究结果进行总结。
作者认为随着全球化日益发展，将有更多的美剧引进中国，而且国内也将产生更多的有中国文化色彩的情景喜剧，国人对幽默（所谓的笑点）的要求也许会越来越高，因此只有通过深入研究幽默的产生机制，才能创造出更多更好的幽默作品。

关键词：情景喜剧;合作原则;幽默; 生活大爆炸
 
Abstract

In recent years, an increasing number of American sitcoms have been introduced into our country and aroused great interest among the Chinese audiences. They can learn the typical expressions of English while enjoying themselves. The Big Bang Theory is a very popular American sitcom among young generations all around the world. There are so many humorous utterances on the show that make the audiences laugh a lot. While as to humorous English language, many people whose first language is not English can not comprehend the meaning between lines. Thus, to analyze humor from the angle of linguistics, especially pragmatics can not only help those audiences have a better understanding of humor in the play, but also make a big difference in the creation of humorous utterances. Grice’s Cooperative Principles is one of the substantial elements of the modern pragmatics, and it has made a great contribution in explaining the generation of humor.
This thesis will first give a brief introduction to the Cooperative Principles, the American sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” and the conception of humor. Then the thesis focuses on analyzing how the humorous effects in the conversations are generated by violating the four maxims of the Cooperative Principles. And the last part comes to some implications and shortages of the study.
The author believes that there will be more and more sitcoms in the future. But only by making researches on the generating process of humor, can those creators produce more and better humorous works.  
 
Key words: humorous utterance, Cooperative Principles, the Big Bang Theory, violate