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Literature Review 1.Linguistic Approaches on Verbal Humor Study Abroad Humor research has a long and glorious history. However, linguistics held an assured position in the late 1970s among the central player of humor research, which was traditionally psychology, sociology, and philosophy (Attardo, 1997: 395). Linguistic study on humor is concerning with linguistic devices such as exaggeration, ambiguity, pun etc is very common. Pepicello in his work The Language of Riddles (1984) pointed out that humor had a close relationship with ambiguity , and humor depended on the indecipherable ambiguity until the punch line resolved it in an unexpected way. Raskin’s the Semantic Script Theory of Humor (SSTH for short) (1985) is the semantic theory on verbal humor from the point of cognitive linguistics. The aim of the SSHT is, “ideally, a linguistic theory of humor should determine and formulate the necessary and sufficient linguistic conditions for the text to be funny”( Raskin, 1985:47). A text can be characterized as a single-joke-carrying text if both of the conditions are satisfied:”the text is compatible, fully or in part, with two different scripts and, the two scripts with which the text is compatible are opposite” (Raskin, 1985:81). Here the script refers to a large chunk of semantic information surrounding the word or evoked by it. Therefore the “script” here contains more meanings than the lexical meanings offered by the dictionary. The opposition of the script is the most important element to influence a joke. Attardo and Raskin cooperate with each other and set up a new theory named the “General Theory of Verbal Humor” (GTVH for short), which is a revision of Raskin’s SSHT. As Attardo puts forward:” whereas the SSHT was a semantic theory of humor, the GTVH is a linguistic theory for it includes other areas of linguistics as well, including , most notably, textual linguistics, the theory of narrativity, and pragmatics”(Attardo, 1994:222). Comparatively speaking, the GTVH contains more linguistics knowledge than the SSHT. Raskin’s Semantic Script Theory of Humor and its further developed version General Theory of Verbal humor are the two most influential theories on humor study from the perspective of linguistics. Coulson is the initiator who employs conceptual blending theory to study humor. In his paper” what’s so funny? Conceptual integration in humorous examples” (2002), he paid much attention to the humorous examples from political cartoons, and aimed to explore the role of Conceptual integration in these examples. He focused on the cultural concepts involved in these examples, and examined how conceptual blending works. There is a special topic on humor study from the cognitive linguistic way on the eighth International Cognitive Linguistics Association conference in 2003. G. Rithchie’s the Linguistic Analysis of Joke (2004) and Alan Partington’s the Linguistic of Laughter (2006) are the masterpieces of humor study in this field. G. Rithchie takes one subclass of joke-pun- as example, aims to discover the inner generation mechanism of jokes. Partington’s work examines the phenomenon of “laughter-talk” with the assistance of language corpora. The author tries to investigate “what speakers try to achieve by engaging in laughter-talk and what both speakers and hearers mat be signaling when then produce laughter” ( Partington, 2006:1) 2.Linguistic Approaches on Verbal Humor Study at Home It was Lin Yutang, a great writer, who introduced the word “humor” for its current meaning in 1923. So humor study at home is relatively new, and scholars began to study language humor from linguistic aspects in 1980s. From that time on, theories on humor take on a new look, and the studies on humors go further. Around the 1990s, humor studies concentrated on rhetoric. Hu’s Linguistics of Humor (1987) and Tan’s Humor and Language Humor (1997) are the representatives; both of the works are analyzing humor from the viewpoint of rhetoric. They take humor as a kind of rhetoric, and pay a lot attention to the rhetorical structures and techniques of humor; however, they overlook the internal mechanism, causation and process of humor. Many scholars pay attention to how the humor comes into being. Yuan (2002) studies how the humor efforts are produced from the perspective of language deviation. Her paper, the humorous effect of language deviation, shows the efforts are produced from the perspective of language deviation. Her paper, the Humorous Effect of Language Deviation, shows the formation of language deviation and its humorous effect by taking different deviations and the humorous effect as examples, such vocabulary deviation and humorous effect, grammar deviation and humorous effect, semantic deviation and humorous effect, etc. Zhang (1993) and Cai (2001) do that research on humor from the ambiguity and misunderstanding respectively. Study on humor from pragmatics is popular recently. Duan (2002) applies conversational maxims, Politeness principle, Deixis, and Pragmatic Vagueness to study the humor in Chinese. Wu (2005) wrote a paper named The Cooperative Principle and Humor in Sit-coms. She used Cooperative Principle to show that how the humorous effect was achieved due to the violation of a certain maxim of the Cooperative Principle. Compared with humor study abroad, the humor study at home is not sufficient enough whether in scope or in depth. Not so much interest is invested in this field; articles on humor published on the journals and works on humor study are rare, so more emphasis should be put on humor research.
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本科生毕业论文设计
从合作原则角度分析《生活大爆炸》中的对话幽默
作者姓名： XXX 指导教师： XXXX 所在学院： XXX学院 专业（系）： XX系XX专业 班级（届）： XXX届
完成日期 XXX 年 5 月 4 日
On Verbal Humor in the Big Bang Theory From the Perspective of Cooperative Principle
BY XXX Fu XXX, Tutor
A Thesis Submitted to Department of English
Language and Literature in Partial
Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of B.A. in English
At XXXXUniversity
May 4th,XXXX
从合作原则角度分析《生活大爆炸》中的对话幽默英语论文
