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.

Focusing on the phenomenon of turn silence in English-Chinese conversational discourse, the paper illustrates both the advantages and disadvantages to turn silence of conversational theory and cooperative principle.

The former studies of turn silence are not complete and there are some shortcomings.