A Pragmatic Approach to the Generating Mechanism of Humorous Discourse;

The Humorous Discourse Under Grice Cooperative Principle——Taking the Character Lines in Feng Xiaogang's Comedy Movies as the Aanalysis Object

With relevance theory,this paper analyses humorous discourse and believes the humorous effect comes from the interpretation of the humorous discourse.

With the analysis of the pragmatic functions of humorous discourses among a particular social group, the paper aims to explore the features of the humorous discursive gender construction in Chinese society, .

Psychological Mechanisms and CognitiveBasis of Conversational Humor;

Friends,an American situation comedy,is very popular with Chinese English learners for its unique conversational humor,which,however,maintains a barrier for most non-English native speakers.

In order to achieve the humorous effect and/or other communicative intentions,the hearer in a conversational humor implements his or her pragmatic strategy of misinterpretation by taking advantage of the ambiguity of language itself and the speaker s pragmatic ambivalence.

In daily communication, verbal humor not only serves to ameliorate interpersonal relations, enliven the communicative atmosphere and avoid conflicts, but it also marks its user out as a man with personal wit, good taste and sound mind.

Explanation of relevance theory for humorous utterances;

However, compared with the hot stage, the study of humorous utterance in comedic skits seems inadequate.

This article mainly deals with the ways of conversational joking within the domain of the Face-saving Theory proposed by Brown and Levinson.

Conversational joking or situational humor has been regarded as a double—edged sword that both diffuses and controls conflict.